dedicated server pricing

[rewt]

what would you guys consider a "fair" pricing model for dedicated servers?

something along the lines of cost of colo + 1/12* server price, this would pay off your server in one year?

Also curious, what would something along these specs be expected to cost?

Two Quad-Core Intel Xeon L5420 2.5GHz
8GB Registered PC2-5300 ECC
1 x 500GB 7200rpm SATA
@100mbit

Thanks for your time and insight,
Rewt

[dualcore1289]

Depends at which location you are looking at. Cheap internet, or Internap? Quality is not cheap.

[rewt]

was looking @ http://www.colounlimited.com/

[loopyman]

From experience I wouldn't recommend doing business with that facility.

[rewt]

can you share your experience?

[loopyman]

All I can say is that you will probably not be happy with the network.

[rewt]

we will see i guess, question still stands tho.

if they suck i'll migrate to somewhere else.

[cookies911]

(09-02-2011, 10:34 AM)dualcore1289 Wrote:  Depends at which location you are looking at. Cheap internet, or Internap? Quality is not cheap.

Internap is not even close to quality anymore. I'd rather pull off a lease on a FCP platform and get nLayer + Globalcrossing mix, and fcp that.

Internap took off all their peering's and just added cogent, and are currently relying on low performance tier2's