Cheap Co Location
Tonight I have been looking around the internet to see if I can find a cheap place to co-locate a server in the SW Pennsylvania / North Central West Virginia Area. Not as easy as it seems, especially for an individual. What I am wanting is a place to put a 1 or 2U rack server running Solaris 10 to house some domains that I and some friends have. See we all are using different hosting companies. Mine is good, but I am limited to 2 GB of disk, which is small for me as I have over 8 gb of pictures I would like to put up. Another friend has problems with his company as they are pretty much morons when it comes to hosting, and his site is routinely down because the load on the server is over 140, and it is on a dual xeon machine. I guess none of these companies have heard of Solaris 10 and it’s cool zones features. If I could only win the powerball tonight, I would buy my own building and set up my own hosting company using Solaris 10 and not Linux. Why use Solaris 10? Well it is quite easy:
- Zones: By far the coolest thing since vmware. By giving each customer their own zone, they are pretty much free to do what ever they want in it, with out affecting the other customers. (This does assume that you have the zone configured so it can not use more than X processor, etc).
- ZFS: This is the coolest file system in the world.
- Security: Solaris is years ahead of linux in terms of security. Think Trusted Solaris, RBAC, built in stack over flow protection, ACLs,etc
- Free: Yup, Solaris is free, as are the awesome Sun Studio Compilers, and most of Sun’s other leading software products. (N.B. Support costs no matter if you use Linux or Solaris, but Solaris support is cheaper. Check out Solaris is a better Linux than Linux
- Fast: Solaris 10 is by far the fastest OS I have seen. I have it running my house network on an old Pentium II 266MHZ machine. It is way faster than Solaris 9 on the exact same box.
So if any one knows of any co location places, or wants to help setup such a place let me know. I think setting up a collocation place to house servers for the individual would be very cool. Just need to find some funding to get it all started.
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