Data-center costs are high, premium grade hardware is not cheap, nor drives, memory and so on. I relay think we should look around, the cost of living is high today, so are expenses. if we providers c

Yes, here in Sweden at least colo is honestly not that expensive, until you look at the bandwidth, that’s where it gets very expensive, very quick

Hmm, some of these VDS you guys are mentioning sounds like an interesting alternative to a cheap dedi if you want a decent CPU.

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Profits from colocation are far less than dedicated servers which is why bandwidth is typically a lot cheaper / more given on dedicated servers.

Colo is plenty worth for powerful and relatively old hardware, eg. 2680v4 servers, with a sizeable amount of RAM.

Colo doesn't really work for a single node unless you have some high priced features in the unit.

It's not worth it for most people, especially if you have an older server. 1U colocation is typically a bit expensive because it requires a lot of management (i.e. racking, deracking, fees, network se

A little OT but how do you motivate buying colo?

At this point, just waiting to sign the new colo agreement and for Flexential to give further info on equipment removal.

I am looking for a provider that offers cheap VPS or dedicated with unmetered bandwidth in the USA

I am not expert of colo and this DC business but seeing so many people affected be it COLO, Leased or even VMs, dedipath must have had quite large clientele, so with such large operation how they ende

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If your raise your budget to 19$ you can get a cheap dedicated from pebblehost

I even gave the exact location in RACK, ready to even share login details and also ready to share Dedipath colo Invoices, but they won't budge.

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As other says, this is old and cheap hardware.