[Box Backup] OT: Server colocation

[Wout Mertens]

Have you considered Amazon's Web Services?

    http://www.amazon.com/AWS-home-page-Money/b/=20
ref=3Dsc_fe_l_1/105-3769240-3766816?=20
ie=3DUTF8&node=3D3435361&no=3D3435361&me=3DA36L942TSJ2AJA

I recently took a look at them and they seem almost too good to be true.

For example, storage (the S3 element) costs 0.15$/GB, and it's =20
enterprise-level and pay-as-you-go. You access it using HTTP (REST) =20
or SOAP. You pay per GB transfer, 0.10$/0.18$ per GB transferred =20
depending on direction. Pretty cheap if you ask me.

You can use your own servers to access it, or you can let them host a =20=

virtual image (the EC2 component) at very reasonable prices...

I'm considering switching over to them, it seems to me I'll save =20
money over my current colo and gain reliability in the deal.

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Obligatory on-topic comment: Maybe boxbackup could be changed so all =20
you need is an S3 account and the boxbackup client instead of a server.

I'm serious. What do you think? Can the boxbackup protocol be changed =20=

so all you need is SOAP or HTTP? I'm thinking yes...

Wout.


On Jul 19, 2007, at 4:34 PM, Stephen Nelson-Smith wrote:

> On 7/13/07, James O'Gorman <james@netinertia.co.uk> wrote:
>> On Fri, Jul 13, 2007 at 11:16:16PM +0100, Stephen Nelson-Smith wrote:
>> >  On 7/13/07, James O'Gorman <james@netinertia.co.uk> wrote:
>> > > Hi all,
>> > >
>> > > My colo provider have this evening announced they have been =20
>> taken over
>> > > by another company which will mean servers being moved from =20
>> London
>> > > Docklands to Maidenhead.
>> >
>> >  Who's that then?
>>
>> Black Cat Networks. I would post a link to the email but the archives
>> are subscribers only.
>>
>> > > So, does anyone have any recomendations/experience with other =20
>> colo
>> > > providers in London?
>> >
>> >  Several - depends on what you want - I've used several in the =20
>> past, am
>> >  using one n particular at the moment, and have some other contacts
>> >  too.  How much are you paying?  What's the bandwidth cost?  How =20=

>> much
>> >  power do you need?
>>
>> I was originally paying =A350/month with BCN for a 1U box, 100GB =20
>> transfer
>> (50p for each GB used over that), up to 0.5A, serial console, remote
>> power cycle, as my IPv4 addresses as one can justify and an IPv6 /64.
>>
>> They bumped their prices up to =A375/month sometime last year due to
>> RedBus doing so.
>>
>> Something similar would be nice :-)
>
> One of my clients can match that, at =A370.00; Would be in HEX, so not
> far to go :).
>
> Interested, ping me off list.
>
>> James
>
> S.
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