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Looking for a cheap rack on the US West Coast
I recently consulted with HE and found a full rack priced at $400 per month.
I would like to inquire if there are any more suitable recommendations available. I require a consistently reliable data center with optimized broadband connectivity to China and lower labor costs.
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HE is literally the cheapest you'll ever get. Not finding anything under that.
Thank you. We are open to considering reasonable price increases if there are better options available.
Maybe talk to Quadranet? They're around the same price. I think OpenColo also has Asia optimized blend.
You're truly appreciated! I shall embark upon the task of reaching out to them.
Who's HE, I may need to so I would like to explore them.
Hurricane Electric，he.net
QuadraNet have low labor cost.
Evocative in Los Angeles can maybe do a full rack, but you would have to bring in your own transit.
NOCIX in Kansas City can do a full rack for $400/month with 20A and 1G Unmetered https://nocix.net but it is more central US
thank you！
Thank you for your suggestion.
As someone born in KC, friends don’t let friends use 1530 Swift:
https://lowendbox.com/blog/electricity-is-this-data-centers-biggest-enemy-power-problems-at-nocix/
It is exactly the experience you would expect from a bottom of the barrel provider. Expect regrets.
But 90% of the traffic from QN route to China via Cogent. For China, HE will be the better option since HE got lower latency than Cogent.
Maybe try contacting @crunchbits
They are US WEST.
Asian traffic (not completely sure about China) is handled by NTT
OVH burned down. ReliableSite had a 12 hour outage in New York and a multi-day outage in Miami within the past 1-2 years. Evocative had a fire in their New Jersey datacenter, causing 24+ hours without power. Google Cloud had a fire and flood in one of their European compute zones, causing it to go offline. Yet people still recommend and trust these providers
I mean, shit happens. I would still recommend them because they are still quite reputable on top of their extraordinarily cheap rack cost (which you probably won't find anywhere else in the US). They've been around for a really long time, over 20 years. Sure, the power outage in July was indeed bad, but that happened due to a failure in their generators and a power issue hadn't happened to NOCIX in a really long time. It is not like they don't have UPS's or generators at all.
Your article is good, but after 7-8 years of providing proper uptime to users, they went down. if we ignore all the mess before 2016. And hey, maybe Nocix fixes their power outage issues once and for all, and we never see any power outages again.
Yeah, Nocix isn’t terrible, but you get what you pay for.
Check out: https://www.ironmountain.com/data-centers/locations/kansas-city-data-center
Totaly agree.
Since Kansas is not a premium location anyway, go for a budget provider like Nocix and host 10% or as low as possible of your business for safety's sake. Besides, Kansas isn't the only state where you can host and offer the best service.