If it’s for something that makes some, but not a metric ton of, money: find a second-tier co-lo within about 50 mi / 80 km of your usual location.If it’s for something that makes a metric f-ton of money: stick to a hybrid, well-managed mix of VPS and co-lo, preferably from a good vendor.Currently, I have a home virtualization/workstation box:- 2x EPYC 7402 + Noctua NH-U14S TR4-SP3 (dual fans)- Supermicro H11DSi v2 (-NT works too if you want dual 10 GbE or NVMe OCuLink)- 512 GiB Samsung RAM- 4x HGST 14 TB HDD- 2x FireCuda 520 1 TB- Thermaltake Core V71 TG case w/ default fans & fan controller removed, modded with extra holes to support the board- 4x 200mm Noctua fans modded to fit within the top and front panels- 5.25″ fan controller + 4 temp probes + 4 temp alarms- 2U/tower Smart UPS 1500 with quality new batteries, NMC 2 w/ env monitoring, 2nd temp/humidity sensor and a WiFi bridge (TL-WR802N v4; overkill maximus)- Looking at Intel Optanes for ZIL and some Samsungs for L2ARC- Also looking at a 4U Supermicro 36x 3.5″ bay for FreeNAS usageWhen you need an OpenBSD or opn/pfSense jumpbox/VPN(es), find (a) minimal, supported good box(es) and stick an Intel X710 series card in it because virtualized jumpboxes maybe too converged for some use-cases. Also, Intel QAT cards can be helpful for TLS termination, edge firewall, and some VPN/SSH jumpboxes in use-cases where (mostly older) CPUs can’t push accelerated crypto bits fast enough.Off the top of my head, some of the colo’s I’ve used:- Bytemark- Rackspace- Pair- Equinix ($$ IIRC)Also, random ones in SF, SJC, Sacramento, and other cities that escape me right now.
blaser-waffle on May 7, 2020 | prev | next [-]
Go to Data Center Map www.datacentermap.com and see who is near/at where you want to host your servers.Web Hosting Talk (www.webhostingtalk.com) is also worth a look.These ^ sites aggregate various colo and dedicated server businesses; many of them have larger, more fleshed out cloud options as well. They’ll rent you space, rent you severs, or rent you a slice of their cloud — maybe all of the above. Options range from one-man-shops to regional-heavy-weight MSPs, and sometimes larger. Rsps —Bigger colo and dedicated providers I’ve dealt with are:- Coresite- Dupont Fabros- Equinix- Atlantic Metro- Rackspace- Flexential (formerly Peak10)- QTS- Raging Wire (I believe they’re NTT)- Digital Reality (Telx)- Most large ISPs have their own spaces (Level3, Zayo, Cogent, etc.) and can host your servers or rent you some as well. Usually not competitive in terms of compute, but could offer good deals for bandwidth or other perks(disclaimer: I used to be a data center manager in Northern VA and worked with/for/against most of the above companies)
codegeek on May 7, 2020 | prev | next [-]
I highly recommend hivelocity.net [0]. Solid and their support is top notch. In 5+ years of hosting, we probably had an issue may be once with them (DNS was not pinging) .https://hivelocity.net
DabbyDabberson on May 7, 2020 | prev | next [-]
I worked for a company committed to managing their own DCs for cost. The idea of a big B2B contract with a cloud provider was frequently tossed around, but never manifested.Our server demands were high. In Ad-Tech, we needed incredibly low latency which required thousands of bare-metal server boxes.Our servers also processed nearly 300 _billion_ transaction each day, each one in around ~50ms. This generated petabytes of data, used tons of bandwidth, and required many servers.leasing bare-metals and a warehouse was cheaper.
deeblering4 on May 7, 2020 | prev | next [-]
Softlayer, while not as cheap as a straight ahead colo, strikes a nice balance between cloud and bare metal. You can provision metal on demand and manage hardware servers via an API. They also have data centers across the world and services like managed SAN/NAS storage. Worth a look for sure.
shrubble on May 7, 2020 | prev | next [-]
Wholesaleinternet.com is based in Kansas. They have good pricing and connectivity. Support was functional but barebones, in that you are responsible for the configuration of the servers after they have put your requested òperating system on it.
cpach on May 7, 2020 | prev | next [-]
Maybe have a look at Packethttps://www.packet.com/
jamieweb on May 7, 2020 | prev | next [-]
I’ve had a good experience with Zare.com. Support is very fast and the pricing is fair.