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Well shoot, if you're in the East Bay and would rather colo in Oakland, use the coupon code "non-clown" to get half off the prices here:

https://account.eppihost.com/order/colocation/

(I typically offer VPSes, but just added some colo options for my hosting services because of this thread, as you can probably tell by the package names I chose. The coupon only applies to colocation.)

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Thanks for offering us a discount. Can I ask why your cabinet and the Mission facility mentioned in the parent comment have just a single 10Gbps fiber connection shared between colo servers. I can get a 5Gbps at home and probably 10 if I asked nicely, I thought in SF it would be straight forward to get multiples of that.

In case there's some confusion - I'm not with MonkeyBrains. I hope my comment didn't read like I was. (And just FYI, I know people who host with MonkeyBrains, and they have no complaints.) I'm just (self-interestedly) providing an alternative across the Bay. I can't speak for them, but my service is on a 10Gbps line because that covers the needs of my clients at the moment. With a network provider at a data center, you'll typically have a good Service Level Agreement, and throughput will actually match what you're paying for. Looking at the home fiber offering from one of the big players just now, they tell you up front, "Actual speeds may vary."

Thanks for the answer.

Maybe my information is out-of-date but traditionally home internet connections were heavily over-subscribed - so that "10 Gbps" ISP would transfer at that speed for short bursts, but their business model relies on you averaging <100 Mbps over the course of a week. That's still enough for you to watch 24 screen-hours of 4K video per day - but the reason residential bandwidth was 99% cheaper than commercial bandwidth was that if you routinely used more than 1% they'd cut you off, throttle you, or apply traffic shaping.

> if you routinely used more than 1% they'd cut you off, throttle you, or apply traffic shaping.

This is true, but how many projects will routinely use enough bandwidth to matter? Unless you're streaming media, very little.

Keep in mind that cloud backups, P2P/torrenting, etc also uses upstream bandwidth substantially, and ISPs have come to terms with it.

For home use? You're probably right.

teruakohatu asked why a colocation facility would have a mere 10Gbps link when a 5Gbps residential links are so affordable. If you tried to run a colocation facility on a residential link, it would spend most of the time severely throttled.

I should have clarified I am a New Zealander. We get multi-gig connections to home that are not over-subscribed, but I would be very surprised if we could saturate that over the trans-Pacific cables.

I live in Alameda and colo in San Jose and would way prefer the shorter drive, even though I never visit my server.. but... this webpage isn't a real product offering is it? Like, you made it in response to the topic post (right?)

I lol'ed regardless. Bravo, and... I may look you up if OpenColo keeps irritating me. They have been surfing that line just below "irritated enough to move". They recently rug-pulled my whole IP block and forced a bunch of reconfig on me I wasn't down for. I'm still salty. Quadranet never did that to me in ~13 years with them. AWS neither come to that.

Clearly my business/branding sense and my sense of humor are off... it is a real product offering, and I'll honor the offer and the coupon if you sign up. Typically I provide website and VPS hosting, just hadn't advertised colo services publicly so threw the product page together. I'll change the product names eventually when I come up with something I like.

(Standard disclaimer: while supplies last.)

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