Networking and 1U Colocation
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The price is not horrible. BUT....
10Mb/s is ridiculous, that's not even good for a lab in most cases.
What tier datacenter is it? Not likely a very good one. -
@tim_g 10/10Mbit is brutal... also, "unmetered" but 3 TB monthly transfer limit? I guess $29.99 is pretty cheap, but damn.
Probably considered unmetered because it would take 32 days to transfer 3TB at 10Mb/s lol
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I want to know what
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@scottalanmiller said in Networking and 1U Colocation:
The price is not horrible. BUT....
10Mb/s is ridiculous, that's not even good for a lab in most cases.
What tier datacenter is it? Not likely a very good one.I disagree that 10/10 is horrible for the price point. What are you doing in a colo (lab expecially), that you need more than 10/10?
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@jaredbusch said in Networking and 1U Colocation:
@scottalanmiller said in Networking and 1U Colocation:
The price is not horrible. BUT....
10Mb/s is ridiculous, that's not even good for a lab in most cases.
What tier datacenter is it? Not likely a very good one.I disagree that 10/10 is horrible for the price point.
It's just horrible. Price point not important. At some point, even for free, the speed is too slow to really consider it.
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@jaredbusch said in Networking and 1U Colocation:
I disagree that 10/10 is horrible for the price point. What are you doing in a colo (lab expecially), that you need more than 10/10?
For $30 a month you can do a lot of stuff on Vultr...
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@scottalanmiller said in Networking and 1U Colocation:
@jaredbusch said in Networking and 1U Colocation:
@scottalanmiller said in Networking and 1U Colocation:
The price is not horrible. BUT....
10Mb/s is ridiculous, that's not even good for a lab in most cases.
What tier datacenter is it? Not likely a very good one.I disagree that 10/10 is horrible for the price point.
It's just horrible. Price point not important. At some point, even for free, the speed is too slow to really consider it.
No, it is not. What workload are you using that needs that speed? Unless it is file services, nothing will use it.
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@jaredbusch said in Networking and 1U Colocation:
I want to know what
Unmeteredmeans in this context.It means that you just get 10Mb/s, not 10Mb/s based on a fluctuating usage. It's that the port is 10Mb/s and you get up to 3TB usage from it (which might be more than it can do anyway.) Metered 10Mb/s means that they measure you and sometimes you can go over, but they have an algorithm.
I'm dealing with metered 20Mb/s right now, and it is dog slow AND they burst over 20Mb/s and bill you.
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@bnrstnr said in Networking and 1U Colocation:
@jaredbusch said in Networking and 1U Colocation:
I disagree that 10/10 is horrible for the price point. What are you doing in a colo (lab expecially), that you need more than 10/10?
For $30 a month you can do a lot of stuff on Vultr...
I can do even more on my 1U server.
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@jaredbusch said in Networking and 1U Colocation:
@scottalanmiller said in Networking and 1U Colocation:
@jaredbusch said in Networking and 1U Colocation:
@scottalanmiller said in Networking and 1U Colocation:
The price is not horrible. BUT....
10Mb/s is ridiculous, that's not even good for a lab in most cases.
What tier datacenter is it? Not likely a very good one.I disagree that 10/10 is horrible for the price point.
It's just horrible. Price point not important. At some point, even for free, the speed is too slow to really consider it.
No, it is not. What workload are you using that needs that speed? Unless it is file services, nothing will use it.
We hit it with things like backups, every few hours.
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@scottalanmiller said in Networking and 1U Colocation:
@jaredbusch said in Networking and 1U Colocation:
@scottalanmiller said in Networking and 1U Colocation:
@jaredbusch said in Networking and 1U Colocation:
@scottalanmiller said in Networking and 1U Colocation:
The price is not horrible. BUT....
10Mb/s is ridiculous, that's not even good for a lab in most cases.
What tier datacenter is it? Not likely a very good one.I disagree that 10/10 is horrible for the price point.
It's just horrible. Price point not important. At some point, even for free, the speed is too slow to really consider it.
No, it is not. What workload are you using that needs that speed? Unless it is file services, nothing will use it.
We hit it with things like backups, every few hours.
Right backups are one where that would suck. yes.
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@scottalanmiller said in Networking and 1U Colocation:
The price is not horrible. BUT....
10Mb/s is ridiculous, that's not even good for a lab in most cases.
What tier datacenter is it? Not likely a very good one.Yeah I didn't catch that 10 Mbit until after I posted... that is bad. My VPS is 1 gig... i wonder why it's so bad on colo?
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@bnrstnr said in Networking and 1U Colocation:
@jaredbusch said in Networking and 1U Colocation:
I disagree that 10/10 is horrible for the price point. What are you doing in a colo (lab expecially), that you need more than 10/10?
For $30 a month you can do a lot of stuff on Vultr...
Not a lot, really. That's six dinky servers, three tiny servers, and less than half one big website. Even my LAMP server on Vultr is $40/month.
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@tim_g said in Networking and 1U Colocation:
@scottalanmiller said in Networking and 1U Colocation:
The price is not horrible. BUT....
10Mb/s is ridiculous, that's not even good for a lab in most cases.
What tier datacenter is it? Not likely a very good one.Yeah I didn't catch that 10 Mbit until after I posted... that is bad. My VPS is 1 gig... i wonder why it's so bad on colo?
Because I know people that colo a 1U server to run private torrent stuff.
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@tim_g said in Networking and 1U Colocation:
@scottalanmiller said in Networking and 1U Colocation:
The price is not horrible. BUT....
10Mb/s is ridiculous, that's not even good for a lab in most cases.
What tier datacenter is it? Not likely a very good one.Yeah I didn't catch that 10 Mbit until after I posted... that is bad. My VPS is 1 gig... i wonder why it's so bad on colo?
Because this isn't enterprise colo, this is just some cheap crap. This is what is sold to people as "cheap local colo" because lots of people see all colo as the same and forget that each is unique.
Colocation America is $50/mo and 1Gb/s unmetered!
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@jaredbusch said in Networking and 1U Colocation:
@tim_g said in Networking and 1U Colocation:
@scottalanmiller said in Networking and 1U Colocation:
The price is not horrible. BUT....
10Mb/s is ridiculous, that's not even good for a lab in most cases.
What tier datacenter is it? Not likely a very good one.Yeah I didn't catch that 10 Mbit until after I posted... that is bad. My VPS is 1 gig... i wonder why it's so bad on colo?
Because I know people that colo a 1U server to run private torrent stuff.
@scottalanmiller said in Networking and 1U Colocation:
@tim_g said in Networking and 1U Colocation:
@scottalanmiller said in Networking and 1U Colocation:
The price is not horrible. BUT....
10Mb/s is ridiculous, that's not even good for a lab in most cases.
What tier datacenter is it? Not likely a very good one.Yeah I didn't catch that 10 Mbit until after I posted... that is bad. My VPS is 1 gig... i wonder why it's so bad on colo?
Because this isn't enterprise colo, this is just some cheap crap. This is what is sold to people as "cheap local colo" because lots of people see all colo as the same and forget that each is unique.
Colocation America is $50/mo and 1Gb/s unmetered!
Good points
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We used to use dirt cheap colo in Scranton. It was cheap because it was old, beat up racks, in a nasty falling down old warehouse, with no services, no redundancy on the ISPs, constant outages, and most of their "servers" were $50 old desktops with open cases and fans blowing on them.
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@scottalanmiller How fast of a connection do you need to run a site like ML? Could your $40 Vultr LAMP server run well on a 10Mbit connection?
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@bnrstnr said in Networking and 1U Colocation:
@scottalanmiller How fast of a connection do you need to run a site like ML? Could your $40 Vultr LAMP server run well on a 10Mbit connection?
ML needs power, we don't really measure the bandwidth needs. It might be fine on 10Mb/s, but we do some serious traffic, so it would definitely be pushing it.
Our $40 LAMP server could run on 10Mb/s.
But neither of those could run in a non-production facility, so that they CAN use 10Mb/s individually isn't really a factor. They would need to use them altogether and they'd need a production level facility. None of which they could get.
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The colo my stuff is in has 10/10 metered. I often spike 100 mbps but never deal with overages because the usage still comes out < 10/10.
