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James P. Kinney III wrote:
>How big of a pipe do you need? I have recently added a 15kw automatic
>backup generator to supply power to my micro-colo/hosting setup. I
>currently have two DSL lines for an aggregate upload speed of 1.536Mb.
>
>
>On Mon, 2005-06-27 at 16:51 -0400, John Wells wrote:
>  
>>Guys,
>>
>>For years, I've run a web server and email server out of my home over a
>>DSL connection from a mid-tower (Athlon 900mhz, 512MB).  I've been happy
>>with th experience and it has been enough to fulfill my needs and handle
>>web sites for a few of my friends' companies as well.
>>
>>My only problem with this set up is power failures...everything about it
>>has been very stable, but a power failure when I'm out of town quickly
>>reveals its fragile nature.
>>
>>So, in the last two weeks, I've transitioned over to a virtual private
>>server.  It's on a big AMD 64 bit machine and has a guaranteed amount of
>>256 MB ram (with gigabytes worth of burstable ram), which sounds ok, but
>>I'm starting to think it might be a little oversold.  It's slow at times,
>>certain webapps (web mail like squirrelmail for example, which open a LOT
>>of imapd connections) slow it quite a bit, and it's memory capabilities
>>are suspect.  For example, with ab, I can crash Apache using 300
>>concurrent connections for just 600 total attempts.  My old Athlon happily
>>chugs along with three times this amount.  I've yet to crash it.
>>
>>So, I'm not so happy.  Ideally, I want my old server back but on a more
>>reliable power supply.
>>
>>Is there a company out there that does affordable collocation of
>>non-racked PCs?  I can't spend a lot (the VPS is $45/month), but would
>>love to drop this guy somewhere with a reliable power supply and adequate
>>pipe.
>>
>>Any suggestions are appreciated.
>>
>>Thanks!
>>John
>>
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