Looking for a US host that offers colocation services.
I own two servers, 3U each, and my monthly bandwidth usage is 50-100
gigs.
Since there are so many hosts out there and I've been burned already,
what I am really looking for is a recommendation from someone who
knows a good host that can provide this type of service, has good 24/7
support, and is reasonably priced (I'm willing to pay up to
$400/server/month).
Location in the US is not important.
Any reccomendations?

Thanks.

Hello,

Some of the comments posted below are probably very useful, but I have
some first-hand information that may be helpful and I've decided to go
ahead and try to answer this.

Cybertrails ( http://corp.cybertrails.com/index.jsp ) is a hosting
company in Phoenix, AZ, that offers colocation services with 24-hour
tech support.  They will support your mail server as well.  Having
actually been inside the building, I can vouch for their quality.  The
have the ability to do monthly/weekly/daily backups per your agreement
and offer several power redundancies. including a backup generator
that runs on jet fuel and would be re-filled after 12 hours of use by
a diesel from a nearby airport.  They are very serious about a high
percentage of uptime.  In the 18 months I have dealt with them, the
site has only been down about 10 minutes total.  and part of that was
for routine maintenance.

I hope this answers your question and that your experience with them
is good.

-rhoekmanjr-

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Clarification of Answer by rhoekmanjr-ga on 01 Jul 2002 19:50 PDT

By the way - they should certainly be able to come within your budget.
 My colocation service with them currently runs about $120/month.

well if you have good connection to the internet you could host it
your self i use if go to www.d2g.com and register with them then
download your client program the program is very easy to follow all so
you can just change your web name when ever you want plus its free
when you download the client and also have register you will have an
www.myname.d2g.com thats if you want it like that or you could try
either  www.geocites.com i think it is or www.homestead.com which are
very good

As for hosting yourself, you probably don't have the connection to
handle 50-100GB bandwidth.  If you do, then I doubt it would be a
dynamic IP address where you would need this d2g.com.  As for
Geocities and Homestead, there is no way you are going to get that
kind of bandwidth.
One solution could be Rackspace at www.rackspace.com. One quote was
just over $300, but with 30GB bandwidth. Everything is customizable,
so more bandwidth can be added (50GB add $54, 75GB add $121). Although
I have never personally used Rackspace or known someone to use them,
they are atleast a known company (you have probably seen the
commercials).

The only colocation provider I can recommend is Sprint e-Solutions. 
Amazing reliability, network, facilities.  However, I do not know if
they will meet your price target.  They tend to be a bit more
expensive because of their quality.

Learn more at:

http://www.sprintesolutions.com/services/hosting/collocation/index.jsp

Personally, the only co-location provider that i have used is
E-DeltaCom, located in Suwannee, Ga. They offer all types of solutions
(racks, cages, and suites) for co-location, and can also provide DNS
hosting, full time monitoring/reporting, managed security (firewalls,
etc), remote eyes and hands service, internet connectivity ranging
anywhere from 10/100 to OC-48 speeds, and system design, consulting,
and maintenance agreements.
I can honestly say that I love the fact that my equipment is located
at EDC.  I also have been burned in the past by a co-lo that couldnt
gaurentee SLA's, power, environmental controls, etc.  IMHO, EDC is a
great place to be hosted at.  Their personell are top notch and
professional, and always great to work with.

Learn more about them at www.edeltacom.com
If you have any questions, feel free to ask!

6U? Good grief. The space is worth more than $400 a month.

I wouldn't do it :) but you could try Jacques at Efreeservers.com.
He's a nice guy and close to your price.

The company for which I work currently does its colocation at the XO
facility in Secaucus, NJ.  We currently pay $400 per month for a
half-cabinet, plus half a megabit per month of bandwidth for
$300/month.  The bandwidth is burstable up to 10 Mbps.  Most hosting
providers bill at the 95th percentile, but XO bills at the 90th
percentile (so the top 10% of your traffic is dropped when your bill
is calculated).  I don't have current prices, but when we negotiated
our contract with them, they were selling bandwidth at the rate of
~$600/Mbps/month.  Since they own their entire network the bandwidth
isn't much of an expense for them, so they can play with the price.

I don't know if you'd be able to swing $800 for 50-100 gigs/month. 
Assuming $400 for the half-cabinet, that leaves $400 for bandwidth. 
I'm not sure whether by gigs you mean gigabits or gigabytes, but our
site did 11.3 gigabytes of traffic (not counting thousands of banner
ads) for the month of May, and we're able to get by at 512kbps.  We've
been reasonably happy with XO.

Ok,
check this out
webhost.thelist.com/colocation




Jnmhorn

A reliable colocation source that has just opened is ColoGuys - try
them. They're having a hard time getting initial business so a few
good customers will get them going. www.cologuys.com

They do colocation, shared webhosting, and can provide server
clusters, depending on what your needs are.

Please visit www.ntplx.net. We can assist you with your needs. Please
send us an email so we can respond to any of your questions. We can be
reached at info@ntplx.net.