Slichost starts at $20/mo, and you get root and your choice of distro, as well as access to the console. On Thursday 13 November 2008 9:44:57 am Kevin Lombardo wrote: > On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 4:36 PM, Mike Miller <mbmiller at taxa.epi.umn.edu> wrote: > > I'm not sure what kinds of services are available for what I want. I > > think the best thing for me would be to have a place that allowed me to > > house a server and charged me for bandwidth. I would connect by ssh to > > do system administration. The server would do email, web, and maybe > > other stuff too. It wouldn't be a bandwidth hog because. > > > > Is what I need called a "colo" (colocation) center? Whether it is called > > that or not, who should I go to in the twin cities for this kind of > > service? > > > > Mike > > A cheap non-local option is a dedicated server from Core Networks > (http://corenetworks.net/dedicated/). I've had good luck with the > Starter package, and the IP KVM was very useful when I screwed up my > SSH server ;) > > These are bare servers when you get them, you can install any prebuilt > image Core Networks has or you can use the IP KVM to install your own > OS. > > Of course the servers are a little undersized and I don't know about > fault tolerance, but this was a perfect option for me. Co-location > seems to be at least $100/month and you have to provide your own > hardware. > > Kevin > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list