Slichost starts at $20/mo, and you get root and your choice of distro, as well 
as access to the console.

On Thursday 13 November 2008 9:44:57 am Kevin Lombardo wrote:
> 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
>
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