[Gllug] Hiring servers - uk2.net

[Kim Hawtin]

> > The price isn't great, too.  At /last/ year's linux expo mailbox were
> > advertising co-locations for £45/mo, and I'd imagine you get a great
> > deal more service and help with that.  Personally, I'd grab a spare
> > low-end pentium or such and co-locate that somewhere like BlackCat or
> > Mailbox for less than £500/year.  The only reason I haven't done so is
> > that I already have two machines more powerful than my fastest home
> > box in data centres, and I'm running out of things to do with 
> > them.  :-)
> 
> Are we getting to the time when high bandwidth connections will be easy
> (and cheap) to get anywhere so you could just stick a server in your
> front room and rent your own personal connection?
> And thus co-location will diminish in popularity?
> Or is this several years off?

issues that i have heard about some of the "cheaper" co-los is
physical security ... =( yes, stuff getting nicked!

yours,

kim


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