My data center just raised my colocation pricing by 50% starting 4/1. Wow. That completely blows my mind. I liked that place but am looking for another provider now.
- jim 2-28-2006 8:09 pm

Shit! I guess their customers are kind of sitting ducks.
- tom moody 2-28-2006 8:14 pm


Hosting gets less expensive while costs of operation (fuel etc) jump more?
- tom moody 2-28-2006 8:16 pm


Not exactly sitting ducks since there are tons of providers in NYC. I've sent out a bunch of requests. The funny thing is that Peer1 was already kind of expensive! But I went with them anyway because I had a good feeling. This isn't the way to build customer loyalty. If I was further along it would be a pain to move it, since it would disrupt all my customers. But most people are still on the hurricane server, so if I move it now it's not that big of a deal. But maybe like you say fuel costs are up and this is just the way it is going to be now. We'll see what feedback I get from others.
- jim 2-28-2006 8:30 pm


For those who are more firmly ensconced there, it's like they're banking on the inconvenience of moving being worth that kind of price hike. Sick.
- tom moody 2-28-2006 9:12 pm


Already gotten some good feedback. Seems like I could get a lower price elsewhere. Could maybe even get a lower price inside the same data center from someone who buys a lot of bandwidth and then resells it. I think my provider just doesn't like dealing with people as small as I am.

Also got some feedback from them. If I can just get to 5 Mb/sec I would be back to where I want on price. I'm not quite ready yet though. Not sure what I will do yet. Might just stick it out for a few months until I get a better handle on how fast I can move up to 5 Mb/sec.
- jim 3-01-2006 1:58 am


Sorry, I don't know what getting up to 5 MB/sec means. Is this like getting kicked out of a Manhattan restaurant because you're not running up a big enough tab?
- tom moody 3-01-2006 3:06 am


Exactly. Except they aren't really kicking me out. They're just saying my first drink is going to cost 50% more. And because I'm only having one drink it seems especially painful to me. If I was having 5 or 10 drinks it wouldn't really be a big deal to pay 50% more for just the first one.

They are blaming power costs, and that does sound reasonable. That's got to be a huge expense. You saw all the AC in there, not to mention those racks of computers. And we all now power is much more expensive these days.

I do have multiple other options already, although I don't have entirely firm numbers from other people. Seems like I'd have to go to Secaucus NJ for the best numbers. How far away is that?


- jim 3-01-2006 3:16 am


An article about data center power.
- mark 3-01-2006 3:42 am





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