HI SYN!

I’ve been shopping around the past few days for either a colocated server space for an old box I have (AMD 64 4000, 4GB memory, 300GB HD) or a deal on a dedicated server.  I’ve pretty much decided on going with Burst.net unless one of my recent quotes come back with a great deal since I cannot stand spending $50/mo on a Celeron with 512MB memory and 80GB HD vs what I can get for $70/mo.

There is an interesting thread on WHT that I stumbled upon dealing with the question of why cheap colo costs more than cheap dedicated:

This is probably a dumb question, but I’ve been curious about something. While shopping around for either a cheap dedicated server (less than $75/mo) or a cheap colo for a 1u server, I have noticed that the cheap dedicated servers are often less than a cheap colo, which seems odd to me since with a colo you bring your own machine.

For example, Sago Networks has cheap dedicateds for $50, $59, $79 etc. yet their cheapest colo option is $99. For Sago’s $50 dedicated you get 1000GB transfer and 2 IP’s, and with their $99 colo you get only get 100 GB transfer and 1 IP.

And Sago is not unusual in this respect. I’ve priced other providers that fall into this category and they have similar differences.

So why is colo more expensive than dedicated for similar, if not lower, features?

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The reason I’m going to a dedicated/colo server (again!) is because this VPS has proven too unstable for me.  I can’t deal with my sites being up and down or painfully slow because another VPS is eating up all of the hosts CPU. Plus I can’t run any game servers for fun!  I also will get about 10x the server for 2.5x the cost which I think is a good deal and I get to put some of my old, idle hardware into action.  This decisions seems Win-Win for everyone.