[FlyBoy73]

Originally Posted by attroll

I purchased my owner server and here are the specs:

2x INTEL XEON 5345 2.33GHZ 8MB QUAD CORE, This is 8 cores
4x 2048MB Memory giving me a total of 8GB of memory
4x 250GB hard drive setup as raid 10 = 500GB total usage
1x 250GB as a backup drive
1x 250GB a spare drive

I did a colo with this server through colo4dallas. In my opinion if you are going to keep a big board up and running it is cheaper to buy your own server and colo it. Renting or leasing a server is putting money into someone else’s pocket. Over a period of one year with the price you pay for using someone else’s dedicated server you could have purchased your own server. I am paying ? if not lower then what everyone else paying because I own my server. If you going to buy a server of your own get something expandable so it will grow with you.

EXACTLY..

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Originally Posted by EricGT

I have a half-cabinet at a large co-lo facility. I am currently running seven servers on my network, four of which are directly related to the site's operation. the others are a firewall, backup server and mail server. I could do everything I am doing on two or three servers, but I like spreading things out.

Computing power wasn't the determining factor for me, when it came to making a hosting decision. My primary concern was bandwidth. I currently have a 10mbs pipe and I am using about 85% of it, at peak times. Of the two, computing power is a much cheaper commodity for a webhost to offer than bandwidth. In a colocated facility, I can contract the bandwidth directly from a big telecom provider and skip the middleman markup. I am averaging more than 60GB of data transfer a day, at this point. If I were paying for my bandwidth by the GB, I would be living in a refrigerator box. Eric

You're doing 60GB of bandwidth over the public network per day with GlockTalk?

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I have a 1/2 cabinet at Colo4Dallas.. I've been to/through a number of other colocation facilitie and they don't even come close to Colo4Dallas's bandwidth, quality, DC design and total uptime..

I recommend that any "Big Board" that needs more than middle-class dedicated server look into colocation.. It has been worth the money and much more..