Hi Per
On Mon, 2007-10-29 at 17:06 +0100, Per Jessen wrote:
At Hetzner, the entry level DS3000 is a dual-core 64Bit AMD, 2Gb RAM and 2x400Gb disk. Plus 1Tb transfer-volume/month. This is available at EUR49/month.
Mostly you will get a mother board w/ CPU, RAM, a power supply, two hard disks to make up a software raid and a plug in a remotely switchable power socket. All made up on smalles place possible on a shelf in a cooled warehouse. And there will be thousands of other mb/disk pairs around yours.
To get anything remotely similar in Switzerland I have to pay SFr300 or more per month. Given that we would need 4 or 5 such servers, colocation very quickly becomes interesting instead.
There is no such business here. If you don't have 1000+ customers, no ISP can compete such an offer. Perhaps a startup should get in to that business (so no other damage to an ISP will occur if the company gets insolvent).
Most of the offers you will find in CH, there are real server hardware (possible with remote management card), HW-RAID built-in in a real 19" rack with aircon (and sometimes with reliable UPS ;-) ). You possibly want to have that, if your servers are mission-critical.
At 4-5 servers, Colo is interessting, because you can set up your own internal and external network and don't have to pay server-internal bw.
HTH - Dan