We have had success on both ends of the spectrum. We have a number of “shared colo” customers who pay $99/month for 1-2U of space and get 10Mb/s of bandwidth included. They must visit physically during regular business hours or additional charges apply. Then we have full rack customers who can come and go as they wish 24X7 with prices starting at $650/month.
We only have a few customers that we hear from often and those were the customers whom we allowed minitower computers instead of rack mount (they have been customers for years). These specific customers bought the cheapest servers they could get their hands on with no remote KVM or similar capabilities. When a reboot doesn’t solve their problem then they need access to that building. Colo is about space and power – bandwidth is secondary and not typically a major source of income in our case. We include access to shared 15A outlets with shared colo and for full cabinet (and half cabinet) colo we provide a dedicated 15A outlet with lots of conditions (you must use our power bars, you cannot load the circuit past 80% etc). Additional power we charge $15 per amp per month if I recall… we can do AC or DC power as well. So limited hassle for us – we see a bit of DOS activity with them but nothing in comparison to the rest of our services. YMMV of course…. Paul From: Af [mailto:af-boun...@afmug.com] On Behalf Of Eric Kuhnke via Af Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2014 4:35 AM To: af@afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Colocation don't mess around with the low end, the sort of customers who want $100/mo colocation for one server are more of a pain in the ass than they're worth. the hosting/colo business has very thin margins. On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 10:16 PM, TJ Trout via Af <af@afmug.com <mailto:af@afmug.com> > wrote: Has anyone made a successful try at offering colocation and would like to point out some details on Do's and don't's? Seems like a great way to build additional revenue off of completely unused upstream bandwidth ? Is it worth the hassle and DDoS?
