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@dominicl - Why do you feel that you have to explain to anyone why you're doing it? Then again there are more hosting providers than gas stations...
Hello,
There certainly are. I didn't need to explain really, but I felt I wanted to be transparant with everyone.
@dominicl - I have found that the only way to stay competitive is to offer efficient business solutions. If you want to compete by offering the same stuff as everyone else at a lower price point without any kind of plan they you're better off doing something else. In other words we are working on a services platform. When it will be ready everyone will see it, however it is not for the LET/LEB market. Also, in other words, the world doesn't need more VPS providers. If I wasn't a provider myself I would most likely use RamNode, ServerMania, Linode or even Rackspace to cover all my business needs. Don't go into this head first because you might end up loosing money big time. Just my two cents.
Dallas - Ionity
Los Angeles - Quadranet
Chicago - Swiftway / CC / Singlehop / Steadfast
Lol +1.
@Patrick - will look at Swiftway and Steadfast and possibly SingleHop. (I'm in contact with colocrossing)
Yeah well he didn't list his budget in the original post so was just a recommendation
@Patrick, yeppers. Ionity... They offer in Dallas and Kansas City. Good company. @ionity on here I do believe.
BUFFALO
@domincl, glutton for punishment ehhh? Buffaloed.... Get out of that town and into some place really New York.
Los Angeles or Seattle.
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read above, gawd :P It's not. It's for dedicated servers
I don't want a Buffalo location ;D
You mean team Alec?
Only one staff? :P
Hello,
This is a slightly different question, but I thought I'd save starting a new thread; what do people think of a Colombus, OH location for VPS's?
I could do OpenVZ, KVM or Xen (I'm undecided at the moment).
I could do OpenVZ, KVM or Xen (I'm undecided at the moment).
What happened to your start off small and grow gradually statements?
I'm still starting off small. I'm scrapping the shared hosting idea altogether since I've got offered such a great deal from a datacenter in Columbus. It's easy to sustain and can easily be done without any issues whatsoever
Don't worry.
cough. Erm...
I've been offered a good deal from a datacenter in Columbus that I can easily sustain and get a nice easy profit on. Therefore, still applies
There are multiple Alec clones that work 24/7.
That's not called a solid business plan. You don't change your mind 24/7 just because of a new deal. It's long term sustainability that you are meant to be interested in.
Seriously. this. The deal may give you temporary "benefit", but I don't see it being sustainable.
If you knew the price ans specs, you wouldn't say that, haha. I don't want to post that here though.
Colombus, OH.
What virtualization do you guys want? There's not too many providers in Colombus which is good.
KVM? Xen? OpenVZ? I want your opinions. What would you like to see?
I try not to chip in too much on conversations like this as I'm not a provider myself; but your suggestion sounds like a really bad way to take a business decision. Surely the virtualisation method forms a key part of the business plan, as it dictates how you'll divide up your servers?
Yes, it does.
However, as the server has not actually been ordered yet (is being ordered this week), I can divide it up how I want to.
It has enough resources that I don't need to oversell so I can do either virtualization method. I want people from LET to get a chance to let me know what they want
It's not as unique as you think, I believe @SupremeBytes or @DamienSB or whatever he's called here has that location. You should decide yourself on the virtualization, and what you think will work best, and what you can manage best most importantly.
Is giving the people of this forum 'what they want' a viable business plan? Genuine question, I always presumed that the business that comes out of this forum is rather small compared to the overall customer base.
It's DamienSB
Also, we don't have servers in Columbus anymore - the cost was just too high for not enough bandwidth. However, our company is registered in the state of Ohio.
I knew there would be providers there, but there aren't as many there as say Los Angeles, etc.
The thing I've done in the past is OpenVZ. However, I've had comments basically saying that they're bored of OpenVZ, haha. This is why I was thinking of offering KVM or Xen.
I think KVM in Columbus would be quite unique. The server will have 32GB RAM, so lots of room.
It's not, but I wanted to get their opinions
If I set up OpenVZ, and then nobody wanted OpenVZ in Colombus, then that wouldn't be good either. I want to get peoples opinions first, and then will decide based on that and a few other factors.
Ah right, that's strange. The costs provided to me are pretty good if I'm honest!
What provider will you use? Most in Columbus are quite costy. Unless you're going to get a full rack of colocation space - don't bother. Even with a full rack of space most providers here will not give you a good price on bandwidth. A provider here (about a year ago) quoted me about 3,000$ for a 50mbps port and a /26 of ip space