FDCServers is having a huge promotion on colocation; you can send them a 1U rackmount box for $39/month, or a 2U for $59/month. And they’ve got very generous bandwidth allocations included.

Now here’s something else that’s interested me for a while: there’s a constant flood of decommissioned and off-lease servers hitting eBay. For under $400 (but plus hefty shipping), I’ve got a dual Xeon, 6GB RAM, with 6x 73GB SCSI disks (15K RPM) coming my way. If you do the same, do pay attention to shipping; $50 is par the course, but I’ve seen a few that are considerably more.

It’s actually temping to pick up a few of the $200-range machines and rent them out hosted, making a handsome profit, but I think a lot of others are thinking the same, and that I really don’t want to be involved in support.

If you’ve got access to some IDE drives, these have had my eye for a while. They seem to have a lot.

Of course, if you’re looking for a (Linux-based) virtual server (VPS/VDS), I’ll have some extra room soon! 🙂