~Toughbooktalk~

Hey guys! I'm just probing the fire to see what I can get out of it here so please bear with me.

I was thinking more and more about the bandwidth thing here and I have found another alternate solution that I think will cost less money for me too as we grow bigger and bigger.

For $233/month I can get a 20M/20M connection that is on the backbone of the US and is MUCH more reliable than Comcast. To this point, Comcast has been pretty reliable so I have no complains there. It's an additional $10/month per 1MB more bandwidth on a symmetrical connection. I'd STILL have to pay $135/month for internet at my house as I'd want a VPN set up for server management between the 2 endpoints (similar to what I have now). If I didn't have the $135/month internet at my house I'd still pay $65/month for basic home service that that equals out to $303/month total expenses if I did the datacenter - Kind of a wash.

To put it into perspective now I pay:

$135/month for internet (Will be $175 once I get the 75M/15M line)
$65 - $90/month on power
That is an upwards of $300/month for 15M worth of bandwidth.

When I get my house I'll have a standard standby generator anyways to power it. I'm still neutral on the whole thing.

What are your guys thoughts about taking this new bad-ass server and putting it in the racks at a dedicated server center that already has dedicated power and generators and backup internet lines?

Thanks!

Thinking about it more and more, I think I won't do the datacenter thing for a few reasons:

1) Power isn't a problem at my new place at all (Hell it isn't even now either, I just have to drive there to get the generator going)
2) As we've expanded over the last 4+ years, so has Comcast as an ISP and I've been happy with them thus far
3) Being on the local LAN to manage the server will be SO MUCH BETTER than an IPSec VPN.

I think I've already talked myself to the conclusion LOL

Thanks!