From: "Geo." 

Thanks, that's exactly what I needed.

Geo.

"mike"  wrote in message
news:ge6dr29c8cc2587e8e4p3nhghfecafms0h{at}4ax.com...
> On Tue, 23 Jan 2007 14:28:22 -0500, "Geo."  wrote:
>
>>I need to know if any of you have machines colo'd out on the net and if so
>>what the charges are. /m didn't you have a server somewhere?
>>
>>I need to find good colo places that have good pricing so I can get our
>>pricing reduced.
>
> I have a server at tera-byte.com, the 15Gb rate.
> http://web.tera-byte.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=services.colocated
>
> It's a great place, reliable power and network.   It's a real data
> center, with 24-hour staffing, and a 800 number for support that is
> answered 24/7 by an onsite human.
>
> One time I was playing and I crashed my server (I know, not the best
> thing to do when the server is 2000 miles away, and the only access is
> via ssh).  I sent an email to the support desk, asking for help.  Two or
> three minutes later I got a reply saying that the were in the process of
> hooking a local console up to my server.  The tech sent me another
> update a few minutes later saying the server was in fsck and that he
> "would stay with it until it came back up".  This was the only support
> request I ever had to make with them in the 4 years my server has been
> there.  There was no charge for the tech's time.
>
>
> Stay away from ciHost.  I had nothing but bad experiences with them.
>
> /m
>
>
> P.S.  Now when I want to play, I use the server in my basement....

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