On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 4:36 PM, Mike Miller <mbmiller at taxa.epi.umn.edu> wrote: > I'm not sure what kinds of services are available for what I want. I > think the best thing for me would be to have a place that allowed me to > house a server and charged me for bandwidth. I would connect by ssh to do > system administration. The server would do email, web, and maybe other > stuff too. It wouldn't be a bandwidth hog because. > > Is what I need called a "colo" (colocation) center? Whether it is called > that or not, who should I go to in the twin cities for this kind of > service? > > Mike A cheap non-local option is a dedicated server from Core Networks (http://corenetworks.net/dedicated/). I've had good luck with the Starter package, and the IP KVM was very useful when I screwed up my SSH server ;) These are bare servers when you get them, you can install any prebuilt image Core Networks has or you can use the IP KVM to install your own OS. Of course the servers are a little undersized and I don't know about fault tolerance, but this was a perfect option for me. Co-location seems to be at least $100/month and you have to provide your own hardware. Kevin