[ale] Data center space?

[Greg Freemyer]

How much is it to rent a 1u physical server these days?

That would be your next step in my experience.

Greg

On 9/20/10, Michael B. Trausch <mike at trausch.us> wrote:
> I am spending about $50 a month on virtual private servers, for no
> reason other than they have IP address space that is redundantly
> provided for by a data center.  I can reasonably forsee paying more in
> the future as I need more systems.
>
> I'm wondering, at what point does it become more worth it to just put my
> own real systems in a data center and manage them myself?  I don't mind
> managing things myself; my plans would essentially be to have a big
> friggin' storage unit and then run multiple systems off of it.  I
> realize that I would be spending a bit more in terms of the hardware,
> and that doesn't really bother me either.  My real question is to
> someone that has done all this already, should I be doing it yet?  Or
> should I wait until I'm paying more than I am now?  And why does it seem
> that all the data centers are very hush-hush about what they charge?  I
> can't seem to find rates for the life of me.
>
> 	--- Mike
>
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