Co-Lo Hosting, and more TF2?

[IoN6]

I know most of you are not as moist in the chonies as I am about this but incase some of you are closet TF2 freaks I'll post it up.

Server files were released today, and the beta is out the this coming Monday the 17th. Made a couple banners for the MOTD and am seriously debating co-lo'ing another server. Anyone know of a high speed, low latency, fairly low cost co-lo in the greater Denver area? I was at Inflow way back in the day, but at $500/mo it was a bit on the pricey side.

I have the hardware, just need a place to slap it and a connection to the net.

Here are some of the banners I made, nothing fancy, but I like them. :flipoff2:

http://images.coloradocg.com/ctf2_group.jpg

http://images.coloradocg.com/ctf2_heavy.jpg

http://images.coloradocg.com/ctf2_sniper.jpg

[element]

Ahh, the good old colorado cs days returns in a new form. This might make me get the game sooner rather than later.

Just a suggestion, but you might think about renting a game server rather than colocation. It would be much cheaper in the long run and you probably won't have to worry about contracts and the such. The downside is I don't think there are any companies in Colorado that offer it, so pings might be a bit larger.

Besides Inflow, the only other Colorado ISP that runs their own colo facility that I can think of is Viawest. Qwest and MCI will probably be way out of game server price range.

[IoN6]

Yeah, I think I was smoking some good 'ish when I came up with that idea.

So someone who remembers CCS and Inflow, man that was a long time ago. I don't understand why a co-lo is more then a rented server. And I really don't understand it when they will load Windows on it and not charge you extra... Something just doesn't add up IMO.

If TF2 goes ape like I think it will I might consider it. But for now I am just going to sit back and see what happens. The beta should be out any time today.

tf2.coloradocg.com:27015

I am also running a CS:S DM server on cssdm.coloradocg.com:26016

[Snotty]

Usually the cost of the co-lo is the rack, electrical and bandwidth. When you rent a co-lo space, you alone have to cover those costs. When you rent a server, they are paying for all that and distributing the cost over the renters. Also, check, because some game server places are putting you on shared hardware as well. So you aren't the only game running on the box. Sucks when they do that because you have no control over the server. OUr BF2 server was shared and I had to put in a ticket to have it rebooted if it started loading up.