[ale] Good co-lo in Atlanta or VPS anywhere?

[alan at alanlee.org]

Thanks for the suggestions.  After the input and looking at Linnode, I'm going
to open an account with them today on the lowest rate tier and upgrade pro re
nata.  I'm a bit of a control freak when it comes to system admin and the
unmanaged friendliness is attractive.
 
Thanks again,
 
Alan
 



On September 11, 2011 at 11:19 AM Scott McBrien <smcbrien at gmail.com> wrote:

> I'll second or third linode.  As for a colo, when I shopped around, I found
> cihost.com in Dallas, TX.  It's about $100/mo, but they offer 3000GB of
> transfers per month.  I took my machine and racked it there, but you can also
> ship it and they'll rack it for you.  I chose cihost because they were the
> cheapest around, Atlanta colos were at least 250/mo with crappy bandwidth
> restrictions when I did my comparison shopping.
>
> -Scott
>
> On Sep 11, 2011, at 9:58 AM, "alan at alanlee.org" <alan at alanlee.org> wrote:
>
> > 
> > Hola,
> > Sorry if this is a popular re-hash.
> >
> > Can anyone recommend both a good VPS provider (anywhere) that supports
> > Fedora or CentOS?
> > 
> > And also a good co-location provider here local in Atlanta to potentially
> > host an alternative CPE 1U server?
> > 
> > My main criteria is cost and avoidance of the 95% rule.  I much prefer a
> > slower fixed capped rate pipe than a variable pipe with 95 rule measurement
> > for both.  Vintage computing sites don't have much traffic and I'd rather
> > have a guaranteed rate plan that cost as little as possible.  Also something
> > down town like 55/56 Marietta is preferable over Lawrenceville/Duluth for
> > when something goes wrong as I live in PTC now.  I've literally had to sleep
> > in the Telex building before and concrete is hard!
> > 
> > Thanks!
> > 
> > -Alan
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