Sorta OT: Dedicated Hosting or Co-Location Hosting in KC Metro Area

[Aaron]

Because I work in this business I have to be careful what I say about people. :)  Here are some 
notes about the providers mentioned below.

KCHost:

I don't believe they do colocation.  I could be wrong but here is what their IP resolves to:

208.188.208.209  adsl-208-188-208-209.dsl.kscymo.swbell.net

You might want to check into what kind of connectivity they have.  That looks like a DSL line to me.

GreenSoft (gsi):

I know very little about them.  They get their connectivity from Sprint and they took up some of 
the space vacated by Communitech.

WebHostingETC:

Can't really comment since their site wouldn't load right for me.  Never heard of them.

Always24x7:

These guys are in Texas.  They're not local.

A couple of the local companies that do colo:

Wholesale Internet  (That's who I work for.)
Netstandard
Switch and Data
PlanetKC
Hypervine

...and just about any of the other facilities based ISP's in town.  The two biggest out of the ones 
listed above are Switch and Data and Wholesale Internet.  All I really know about Switch and Data 
is that they charge $800 per rack plus power plus bandwidth.  I don't know if they do half racks or 
not.  Our standard pricing for a half rack would be $300 per month and then $100 per Mbit.  So if 
you wanted a half rack with a T1 all to yourself it would cost you $450 per month.  If you're going 
on transfer that would give you roughly 480GB per month of transfer.  That price includes 10 Amps 
of power.

Aaron

----- Original Message ----- 
From: Paul Taylor 
To: kclug at kclug.org 
Sent: Sunday, August 31, 2003 12:30 AM
Subject: Sorta OT: Dedicated Hosting or Co-Location Hosting in KC Metro Area

I thought I'd give some business to the local community.

I'm looking for co-location companies (preferred) and dedicated hosting (last resort) in the KC 
Metro area. Probably going to need 1/2 to a full rack of space to fit equipment.

I've located these sites:
http://www.kchost.com/

http://www.gsi-kc.com/hosting/colocationhostingplans.html

http://www.webhostingetc.com/kansascitywebhosting/

http://www.always24x7.com/home.html

I'll contact them after the holiday weekend. Anyone have any other suggestions / recommendations? 
Comments about the companies above?

Regards,

Paul

paul at kcnetcare.com