How's this for a server quote?
 

Intel Core2 Duo E6400, 2x 2.13Ghz/1M L2 cores
supermicro PDSMI+ server board, Intel 3000 chipset
2x 1G ECC unbuffered DDR2-533, 2x open
2x Western Digital 160-Gig RAID Edition, 7200rpm
3ware 8006-2LP 2-port hardware RAID1 controller
on-board Intel dual Gb NICs
on-board ATI ES1000 video, 16M
1U 260-watt power supply
1000GB of DL
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$247/month

Average or good price?

Sounds pretty fair to me.

Hardware specs and price are not the only thing to be taken into consideration when deciding whether a deal is good or not. Quality of support and quality of bandwidth should also be added to the equation.

BW is excellent. Support is not top notch, but is somewhat ok.

I wanted to say: support is not the level of phat servers, lol.

But BW is the level of phat servers support :)

I wanna see some 150g raptors RAID'd in there :)

So you'd take it, if I you were me? All I wanna know.

well, I'm paying $150 for 3mbit on an old p4-2.0ghz with a 60gb hd...
but that's with a high quality host..
seems like a pretty decent deal to me!

sounds fair

For most of my servers, I need more bandwidth than I need raw power, so with the bandwidth it comes with, it's not appropriate for me. I do have some servers with only 10Mbps or so, that actually use less than 1Mbps, but they're the exception, not the rule.

I also need fully managed or semi-managed server, and I didn't notice if this was or not.

So, if you're crunching DB's, not pushing data, it seems reasonable for a managed server of those specs, if a BIT high ... but I'm spoiled with volume pricing, maybe.

ya DBs are getting abused, no static stuff on the server.

so by looking at everyones' statements this is an ok deal then.

ok then... :)

you can do better than that: at SwiftCo its only $75 for 4mbit, 2.8 ghz, 80gb hd and have way better bandwidth and providers: level 3, internap etc etc

He speaks the truth...trust me on that lol

hmmm sounds fair :)