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IPv4 Adresses/leasing, Colocation, power, bandwith. HR. It costs money. Such machines use 30/50€ alone in power a month. (Speaking of exact this node, with present power reading it would be 52,35€ wit

I got my server for my lab - not for colo.

Colo:

Anyhow, i am not ready to buy the excuse that we used cheap hardware, provide no monitoring, and certainly no SLAs for blackfriday and cybermonday because hey you paid 10-20 bucks for the same, cheap

Second point: You are the one who adds value with your hosting, your software or services. Also again, hosting and colo is a business that's pretty much all about scale of operations and with 1 - 4 HU

I really appreciate the feedback, your whole comment makes a lot of sense! I guess my logic was that I could see great prices in the EU where colo and more powerful dedi were closer. I think I realise

I've noticed that 2x 2TB servers are pretty cheap, as soon as the hdd size increases to 3TB or more, prices almost double. I'm curious, are 3/4TB drives that much more expensive?

Sia is an option. You would be looking at data with triple redundancy for about $2 a TB monthly. Obviously this shouldn't be your main solution, but it is a good, cheap, and reliable solution.

My advice: Stay away from colocating less than 10 HUs ("quarter rack") at the very minimum. Reason: the way things work.

Plus colo ain't just buying the server and shipping it off. Better have some spare parts on hand all the time.

that I could buy a server with more power, and colocate it - I'm leaning towards this as although the first year I'd be paying off the server, but it would be an asset I own.

AlphaVPS is a leading IaaS provider in Europe, offering cheap VPS, KVM VPS, Dedicated Servers, Colocation, Connectivity, and custom solutions out of 5 worldwide locations. Operating since 2013 and bas

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Depends on the business, for mission critical apps with 20k concurrent user logged in, 25 / month is cheap.

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A cheap VPS is also an option, haven't seen any VPS that can match the €1 Aruba VPS that's now gone unfortunately. I couldn't see any VPS on smallweb.net? Do they even offer VPSes?

Well LowEndSpirit group is the king of dirt cheap NAT, World Domination check MrVM deals @mikho, GullosHosting @Cam and recently WebHorizon @Abdullah7310 also provide it.

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