[plug] co-locating

[Leon Brooks]

On Wednesday 13 October 2004 16:59, Brad Campbell wrote:
> Co-lo here is over $1000 AUD per month for 1RU a 1MBit link and
> 30GB/pm traffic! Talk about monopoly rip off.

2RU
    $220.00 once-off set-up
    $77.00 per month
    $396.00 per 6 months
    $660.00 per 12 months

Monthly Traffic Allowances
    2 & 4RU: 2 GB + 1 IP address
    1/2 rack: 6 GB + 4 IP addresses
    Full rack: 12 GB + 8 IP addresses

Additional Traffic Allowance
    0-1 GB 3.3c MB 
    1-5 GB 2.2c MB 
    5+ GB 1.1c MB

So 2RU + 30GB == $55 (colo+2G) + $33 (+1G) + $88 (+4G) + $275 (+25G) per 
month (= $451 inc GST). On slack months, considerably less. The 2G is 
the max of each way, the extra GB are anything beyond the 2G, each way 
(so 3G in, 1G out == 1G over; 3G in 4G out == 3G over).

You can also get unmetered Committed Information Rate links at 256k, 
512k and 1024k which will burst to 100%, load permitting.

    http://www.arach.net.au/products/co-location/

I'm sure there are other locals (one off Scarborough Beach Road 
somewhere?) who are competitive with that. If 1 megabit is enough, 
consider getting two 512/512 ADSLs from different providers (for 
reliability, too) and load-sharing them. As long as your 32G is not 
inbound, you should be able to do that for about $160 a month all up. 
One of my customers does exactly that for a big Terminal Services box 
(and three head-office DSL links shared between 6 offices).

Cheers; Leon