rental servers?

[Brian]

 GE Capital comes to mind...

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[mailto:gnhlug-discuss-admin at mail.gnhlug.org] On Behalf Of Bill McGonigle
Sent: Friday, February 04, 2005 11:01 PM
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Subject: rental servers?

Here's a strange question - has anyone heard of a service that provides
short-term server rentals?

This is for benchmarking an application on a machine for a client who's not
interested in purchasing a dual-xeon with two gigs of RAM and phat SCSI
disks just for benchmarking, but would be interested in renting one for a
few days to see how their application performs on it.

It's also different from a colo/rental which is usually monthly plus some
minimum term.  One could unethically take advantage of a
money-back-guarantee on such a thing but I'm not looking for that kind of
solution.

In theory this could be a profitable business but I haven't seen anything
like it - if the rental fee was like $25 a day one could double his money on
each server each year, not counting the year-end eBay.

Of course if anyone here has such a thing that's sitting on a shelf and
would prefer to make some dollars on it for a week that's totally doable.

-Bill
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