[justinclift]

I guess it kind of depends?

As a data point, for two 1U servers co-located in Australia I'm paying about AU$500 per month.

If these two servers were low spec, then that would be more expensive than just renting dedicated servers.

But I can put whatever spec servers fit in those two rack units, including things with quite a lot of ram, quite a few ssds, 10GbE+ network links, etc.

Doing the same thing as that with dedicated servers would be quite a bit more than the AU$500/mo I'm currently spending.

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As a data point for anyone interested, those two servers are running Proxmox and host a bunch of (Linux) VMs that provide online services. Live migration (etc) between them works fine, etc. :)

[AmericanChopper]

If you need something close to the full compute a 1U can offer, then you can definitely get value for money from ordinary colo like that. But you’ll get a lot more value if you need a full or half rack. But if you just need a single VPS it’s not going to add up.

[abigail95]

How much power do you get for that?

[justinclift]

Good question. :)

We're using this crowd, and they've been really good: https://www.ransomit.com.au/colocation/

Would recommend. :)

I'm not sure how much power is included. They asked for the specs for the servers, which we provided, and they gave us the above quote which we took them up on.

That price also includes some extra stuff. An IPv4 /28, and dedicated VPN for the IPMI/iDRAC ports on the two servers.

Each 1U server seems to idle at just over 100W, though when they get busy they ramp up to several times that.