Hostin with your own computer

[matty281k]

Im trying to find a hosting company which just rents out the bandwidth and connection.

I have my own server but just want to rent the space, anybody got any recommendations ?

 

[GreyWing]

I use serversure.net which has never let me down in hosting my own server, £30 a month.

I'm sure there are others that others will recommend.

 

[monaghan]

There are a number of co-location options available, you need to determine power requirements of your server and factor this into the costings as it can often be cheaper to rent a current spec low power server than to pay the power costs for an older machine you may already have.

Also consider location, Docklands will generally be more expensive than an out of London location.

Look for availability of remote hands, serial console, remote reboot or KVM system - all of which can help you out of a pickle and may save a trip to the DC if the server crashes.

 

[matty281k]

hi

Yeah I have found a few colation hosting providers in my city, but its about £20 more per month.

With uk2 at the moment and they were okay but they suck.

Probably gonna get more benefit using a 1gb single processor rig than using a shared server

 

[Ashton]

Hi Matty,

I have a UK2 dedi, not many problems sept a few outages recently, same for you?

 

[matty281k]

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Yeah last few days has been shocking, live support just ignore you soon as you mention hosting problems.

 

[jimm]

Is it a proper server you have? Is it going to be reliable? You do understand the implications and responsibilities you undertake in what you are doing? (IE if the PSU dies on christmas morning it is you who is going to be finding the spares and getting them to the DC, and then some charge for access or need 24 hours notice).
As Alex mentioned have you checked out your power usage? Power is expensive so if you have a power hungry device it will be expensive.
You need to consider if you need it in the Docklands, London, close to London, other locations such as Manchester or Leeds.
All of this will affect your decision on the host for you.

Alternatively have you thought about using something like a virtual server? If you pick a decent provider you can get a very powerful and fast server for not a lot of money which (if properly set up) can handle some serious traffic. Ill give you a recent example, I had a customer hit heavy with visitors for their event due to snow. They were getting over a hundred requests every second at some points in the day. This was dealt with using just 20 MB or ram (the server had 128MB). They shifted 120GB of data in 3 days and the page was just text and a couple of small images for the design!

 

[snooze]

You might be interested to know that easyspace is offering 1g memory, unlimited bandwidth, 10G space for £14.99 per month. I think the offer ends 15/12.

One thing thing I find with them is they increase their price every year and they give you with plesk 10 domain limit. They did said I could take if off and use my own management solution - Still thinking about it