Looking for co-location deals

[Crash]

I've been looking for a good co-location host for weeks now.

Does anyone know of a co-location host that offers unlimited or 100GB+ per month bandwidth for $200-300 per month?

I want to host game servers and will probably be running 4 or 5 so it might take a lot of bandwidth, but it might be under 100GB.

Any ideas?

They are game servers, so needs a good connection.

[akashik]

That might be a tough call. In general bandwidth costs between $3-5 a gig. Anything lower than that and they'd have to be a pretty major provider buying in bulk. That's not even adding in the costs of your space rental at the facility.

That's no help I know - just putting some perspective on it

Greg Moore

[Locu]

Yup, that's a pretty tough order. Expect at minimum $300/month for the bandwidth, and at least $50 for the colo space. If your looking for quality bandwidth stay away from anyone that claims "unlimited" too. The true meaning of any host offering unlimited bandwidth means, very slow, latent, minimal bandwidth.

[Hays207]

I know of a company that buys bandwidth in bulk and can sale it to you at the price you are asking. They have reliable service and a carrier grade colo. I will email you the contact info.


Thanks
Hays

[JTY]

Well, the closest to that price I can think of would be, http://www.affordablecolo.com/

[NetXL]

Hey Crash,

If you're after big bandwidth for cheap prices i'd go with E.Continents. (www.econtinents.com) They do a 200gb deal for $199 monthly and as far as I know their uptime is great. They will be adding the Qwest backbone to their serives soon, it's not exactly huge redundancy, but from the people i've spoken to, uptime has been 100% for their period with them. You may also like to deal with their smaller division instead, you get no limits on the amount of IP's you use, for the same price of $199/200gb. www.efreeservers.com.

Regards,

[Crash]

Thanks for the input, been checking out all the places. Some are reasonable, some are just expensive.

I've been colocating for a few months now, and have just recently got a good deal.

Basically, (i'm not trying to advertise) I can offer 1U of rackspace, with an 800GB transfer limit, on a multiple oc48 backbone for $400 a month, which, I think, is pretty good compared to what some places are charging for transfer. I mean, even $300.

I'm kind surprised some places are still charging so much, I was under the impression bandwidth was getting cheaper.

[RhynoHost]

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[Alex West]

I use www.escape.com

They are excellent and very reasonable. If you mention my name to them they?ll give you a great rate. I have 3 co-locations there. They have multiple T3s to their uplink. Tech support is great. Never on hold more then 2 mins.

Hosting and colos.

Contact Roman at info@escape.com

Good luck,

Alex West
(don?t forget to mention my name. I don?t get anything from them. They?ll give you a great rate.)

Our sites at escape:

www.thrillnetwork.com
www.radicalzoo.com/community
www.singlereel.com

[ClineCOM]

Check out our co-location services and even our dedicated servers at, http://www.ClineSERVER.com.

You'll notice we do provide 400GB of monthly transfer, enough rackspace for any box you have for only $130 a month.

For the price of $150 a month you get the same setup, but the box is included. The box is a 1.4ghz box with 512MB of RAM and a 60GB harddrive.

There are a lot of places, such as affordablecolo.com that advertise packages starting as low as $35.00. That is a great price, but with no bandwidth, it's hard to have a gaming server, isn't it? At their price of $1.50/gig of bandwidth, when you get up to 400GB of bandwidth, you would have spent $600, not including the $35 rack fee. With us, that is all included, for the $130 a month, you get the 400GB of bandwidth and the rackspace!

Why not spend the extra $20 and just get an entire machine from us where we guarantee the hardware and will replace it free of charge if any of it seems to fail.

Let us know if we can assist you!

[zookpak1]

Check out http://www.fastcolocation.net/

ZookPak

[OFS]

The thread above this one mentions theplanet.com appearently they are having a special of some sort.