Looking for a new colo for my server
Unfortunately the free ride I've had for the last oh, gee, it must be something like four years, is coming to an end, so I have to find somewhere else to co-locate daedalus. Thanks Ben, you've saved me a packet!
The first step is to figure out roughly how much traffic this thing is doing. Fortunately I've been running Argus on it for donkey's ages, so I should be able to figure that part out.
Then I have to find a colo facility, (preferably in Brisbane, to avoid too much dicking about with moving the hardware), which won't charge me an arm and a leg for traffic. I'd prefer a flat monthly fee if possible.
I also need to do some soul searching to decide if it's even worthwhile continuing to keep a physical server. I could move my mail to Google Apps, the photos to Picasa, but I kind of like my blog the way it is. I spent a non-trivial amount of money of daedalus about 3 years ago. It's a grunty server. It seems something of a shame to get rid of it, but I could potentially get a virtual server a lot more cheaply.
The other option would be to try and generate sufficient income with it to cover its costs, but that has all sorts of tax implications, not to mention having to maintain a service level agreement. I really don't have the time or inclination to be doing all of that on the side.
All stuff to think about.
I have an amorphous month to move my server, so if anyone out there has suggestions on a colo provider in Brisbane, please drop me a line.