Hosting, what do you pay for it.

Ohh, anyone looking for cheap ass servers on a decent connection.

Just found this, http://www.worldstream.nl/home

@Strail:

They charge 19% VAT

Yups common rate in Dutchie land (where i live), they even want to put that on 20% next year.
And tbh, i never look at VAT…. cos i don’t pay it (company).

@bulldogg:

so it seems most people use contracted hosting for their servers, anyone ever used co-location hosting? if you dont know what it is check here http://www.webhostgear.com/18.html

Yes. i have used colocation hosting.
The funny part is that colocation is allmost just as expensive as renting a full server. With renting a full server you most of the time get loads more and the price is like 10% more.
With colocation you also have the problem that you have to maintain the hardware, support you can’t ask because the OS you installed is yours, and with colo the support is most of the time expensive.

The next downside is the investment you have to make before you drop a server in a cabinet. You will have to buy a 1U server, and the hardware for that format is a bit more expensive, that there is the coise of hardware ofcourse and you are responsible yourself for the hardware. If it breaks you are responsible for fixing it and not the colo hoster, this is ok when you live nearby but in my case i have to drive for 1.5 hours to put a power cable backin the colo support “accidentaly” plugged out.

Colocation is nice once you have a whole bunch of servers, or when you want a server with a redicules amount of storrage.
But just for hosting a service, game a dedicated server or even a VPS would be my preference.