{"id":1953,"date":"2009-06-11T19:44:13","date_gmt":"2009-06-11T23:44:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/2009\/06\/11\/need-a-server-hosted\/"},"modified":"2009-06-11T19:44:13","modified_gmt":"2009-06-11T23:44:13","slug":"need-a-server-hosted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/2009\/06\/11\/need-a-server-hosted\/","title":{"rendered":"Need a Server Hosted?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.webhostingtalk.com\/showthread.php?t=865837\">FDCServers<\/a> 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&#8217;ve got very generous bandwidth allocations included.<\/p>\n<p>Now here&#8217;s something else that&#8217;s interested me for a while: there&#8217;s a constant flood of decommissioned and off-lease servers hitting eBay. For under $400 (but plus hefty shipping), I&#8217;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&#8217;ve seen a few that are considerably more.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;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&#8217;t want to be involved in support.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;ve got access to some IDE drives, <a href=\"http:\/\/cgi.ebay.com\/1U-Rackable-Systems-Server-Dual-Xeon-2-66Ghz-4GB-CD-ROM_W0QQitemZ200328761881QQcmdZViewItemQQptZCOMP_EN_Servers?hash=item2ea4865219&#038;_trksid=p3286.c0.m14&#038;_trkparms=65%3A12|66%3A2|39%3A1|72%3A1234|240%3A1318|301%3A1|293%3A1|294%3A50\">these<\/a> have had my eye for a while. They seem to have a lot.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, if you&#8217;re looking for a (Linux-based) virtual server (VPS\/VDS), I&#8217;ll have some extra room soon! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8217;ve got very generous bandwidth allocations included. Now here&#8217;s something else that&#8217;s interested me for a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/2009\/06\/11\/need-a-server-hosted\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1953\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}