Cohosting around Lebanon - suggestions?

[Ben Scott]

On 1/26/06, Christopher Schmidt <crschmidt at crschmidt.net> wrote:
> The half-racks I heard being discussed were from Ben, by Colospace.

  Yes.  Sort of.  M. Stearns had asked about colo.  I mentioned
Colospace, who have a facility in Manchester, NH.  Somebody tossed out
the figure of between $200 and $300 per month for "half a rack" there.
 That started me thinking: If a bunch of us LUG nuts each chipped in
for a U or four of space, that could get the cost down to tens per
month.  This page:

http://www.colospace.com/services/colocation.html

indicates "half a rack" is 20 U.  Assume $300/mo, and that's
$15/U/month.  Of course, I dunno how any of this would interact with
Colospace AUP/TOS.  And given that some (M. Stearns in particular) has
mentioned "above basic" bandwidth usage, I'm sure the price will go
up.  But it's a starting point.

  Who else here might be interested in this?

> I don't personally have any needs at the moment, but it might be an
> interesting experiment to do this with GNHLUG ...

  Actually, this is already in the cards.  I have a 1U server that is
intended to be for GNHLUG's usage.  In fact, I'm supposed to be
coordinating this effort myself.  Various things (including health,
work, holidays, and good old fashioned procrastination) have
contributed to me being grossly negligent about keeping the ball
rolling.  I hope to get into this further this weekend.  (Right now,
I'm busy at work upgrading our installation of Symantec Anti-Virus
Corporation Edition for Windows.  What fun.)

-- Ben