Colocation recommendations....

101001101 · 5 May 2012 at 16:08

Hey guys

I'm moving house and my new place doesn't have any room for my lab

therefore I want to colo some of my lab for dev purposes and maybe even a website or two.

The server I want to colo is your typical eBay special, a 1U DL360 G5 with decent spec (2 x Quad Core Xeons, SAS etc) it also has an advanced iLO2 license which allows virtual media (remote ISO mount), remote console access, shutdown / startup and playback of console sessions - so should be ideal.

Amongst other kit I have a Cisco 3750, I was thinking of maybe colo the 3750 so I can configure my own VLANs (though I could do this internally on the vm hypervisor running on the 360 G5 instead...?).

Anyway, questions I was hoping some / one of you seasoned colo vets would be able to answer is:

1. Any recommendations on how much this would cost (specifically for the DL360 on 24/7 with dual PSU's but not massive load), coloing the 3750 as well is a nice to have not a must, maybe I don't need it.

2. Any recommendations on providers I could go with

3. Recommendations on hypervisor to go with, I've used most but my choices on the table are: XenServer, VMware, Proxmox VE, OpenStack (on Ubuntu 12.04), KVM (on CentOS) etc

What do you guys think?

Cheers

DJMK4 · 5 May 2012 at 17:05

I work for a data centre up in South Wales if you want to host with us

depends on your needs really and if you would need access to it and if you were willing to travel if you did

Other than that there I would generally scope around the wolverhampton, london area's

Yamahahahahaha · 5 May 2012 at 17:42

Colocation hosting forum:
http://www.webhostingtalk.com/forumdisplay.php?f=131

Cheapest deal I can see on there - £20 for 1U:
http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?t=1150088
The quality is completely unknown (expect it to be awful), so do keep that in mind.

Colocation is a lot more expensive than it used to be due to the cost of power.
I would personally recommend getting a smaller server (R210 II for example) to use as the lab. It'll use a lot less power.

KIA · 5 May 2012 at 19:22

http://rapidswitch.com/
http://www.poundhost.com/

pdw8 · 6 May 2012 at 11:37

Yamahahahahaha said:
Colocation hosting forum:
http://www.webhostingtalk.com/forumdisplay.php?f=131

Cheapest deal I can see on there - £20 for 1U:
http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?t=1150088
The quality is completely unknown (expect it to be awful), so do keep that in mind.

Colocation is a lot more expensive than it used to be due to the cost of power.
I would personally recommend getting a smaller server (R210 II for example) to use as the lab. It'll use a lot less power.

That's quite scary, £250pm for a full rack with 8 amps

We pay about that a month just for the power, average cost is about £1k in the 30 or so sites I've got racks in.