On Tue, May 15, 2001 at 10:18:30AM -0400, Wojtek Zlobicki wrote:
How many medium sized businesses (lets say under 50 or 100 people) do you know that are willing to or can afford colocation. Many of these companies have only one server on prem. For customers such as this, they not only need a way to host a small webpage (receiving a hit a day if they are lucky) but also need internet access. It is customers like this for whom DSL is appropriate. I should have been more clear on the case of the company needing internet access. The problem with going with some of these fly buy night hosting operations is that some are using DSL themselves!
Fair enough. But the bottom line is this: If you're paying for the cheapest connectivity that suits your basic needs, you're going to get the cheapest. Expecting it to be as good as the more expensive solutions is unrealistic.
I don't know much about the colocation market in the US. But I do know that it is difficult to find a reasonable colocation facility here in Canada for under $500-1000 a month (I may be wrong here, I have not looked at colocation pricing in a while).
Well, it's a trade-off. If your website represents a significant revenue source for your company, you can justify spending the money to put it somewhere reliable. If you're only getting a couple of hits a day, it probably doesn't matter all -that- much if you do lose your connectivity for even several days. -c