Hosting Prices???

[pr0]

I'm not looking for a host right now but i am doing some research.........

Whats the average price per gig running right now as opposed to this time last year?

Whats the best pipe/provider to adult hosting companies in 2002?

Is there a pricing war going on right now, or has it calmed down somewhat?

Have any pipe's been shutdown to adult hosting companies in the past year or 2?

Who is the most expensive & least expensive pipe provider right now?

About how long do new hosts last these days?

[wired1]

Best pipe provider would probably be Rackspace

Providers are;

AT&T
Broadwing
Qwest
SAVVIS
SBC
Time Warner
UUNET

They do have a killer network... They arent the cheapest by far, but there network, support, and uptime are excelent.

[cyberpunk]

Just wonder how u came up with this list... makes no sence at all

for killer hosting see below

[pr0]

wired, thanks for the list of pipe's

cyberpunk i didn't ask for a killer host, or am i mistaken?

I'm just looking for technical information, you'll have plenty of oppurtunities to talk about your KILLER HOST in other threads.

[mike503]

http://www.dedicatedonly.com/dedicated.html

hey, looks pretty professional

[pr0]

Originally posted by mike503
http://www.dedicatedonly.com/dedicated.html

hey, looks pretty professional

yea none of the images load, but on a good note, the html actually loaded fairly quick

[mike503]

i believe UUNet and/or Timewarner had a miff with CEN about spamming or something. i don't think i've heard of anyone else having upstream hassles. i'm sure some other people here know more about that.

[mike503]

Originally posted by pr0


yea none of the images load, but on a good note, the html actually loaded fairly quick

that's the sign of quality pipe!

[wired1]

Originally posted by cyberpunk
Just wonder how u came up with this list... makes no sence at all

Whats not makeing any sence? pr0's question or the providers on Rackspaces network?

http://www.rackspace.com/infrastruct..._partners.php?

[pr0]

anyone else with some info?

please feel free to spam your hosting signature if you can answer some of these questions lol

[Phil21]

Well, your questions are very market dependant (as in, geographical market). But I'll leave that be.


Essentially, there still is a price war going on. With the advent of cogent, and the near-chapter-9 NSP's, the price per meg for *large* commits is falling like a rock. Think we've pretty much seen the bottom (as in $50/meg easy from chapter 11 companies for 100mbit+ commits.. i.e. gblx, mnfx, etc.), and I think the bottom will rebound a bit as these companies either come out of restructuring or just die off alltogether. Expect the price of bandwidth to take a slight upward trend, not much, but instead of $50/meg for hugeass commits, you'll be looking at $75-100.

Essentially, everyone will stop trying to get market share and quickass revenue shots, and realize they they DO need money to keep their network in shape.

Most expensive transit? Easily uunet and sprint. Cable and Wireless may be coming in a close third, but I havn't sourced them lately.

Least expensive transit? It's probably a toss up, and depends greatly on your commitment levels. If sub 500mbit/sec, you're probably still looking at cogent. Over 500mbit, mfn probably is the most desperate.

Of course, this is all my experience and opinion talking. No real substantiated facts here. I by no means come close to the commitment levels needed here, but I do help source transit for those that do, and network regularly with engineers of many of the companies mentioned previously in the thread.

-Phil