[COLUG] Local colocation of server

[Duane]

Tom Hanlon wrote:
> Hey Colug,
> 
> I need to find  a good place to colocate a machine. I sort of like the
> idea of setting up myself, but I may not have to much time , so perhaps
> a self managed dedicated machine would do.
> 
> Any advice ? Who do you like ?

Xen hosting....

You can't mess the kernel up in any way, and find a provider that offers
a useful set of "features" either via website or ssh connection.

Oh and a rebuild option if you really mess things up is handy too :)

http://serveraxis.com seems to be best bang for buck, esp in the ram
dept, and was previously mentioned last time something like this came up.

Xen hosting tends to suffer a bit from HDD IO problems, but you can
easily work round most of these with decent amounts of ram. Dumping ram
hogging things like Apache for lighttpd, sysklogd/klogd for syslog-ng,
which lets you do buffered log writes also reduces the number of IOs per
minutes on a busy server.

Tuning MySQL for your needs and/or things like memcached can also reduce
IO penalties as well.

The better question would be, I'd like to do xyz with a machine in
colocation, how would I do this?

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