I'm interested in getting a colocated FreeBSD server to run network services on, preferably somewhere in the area so I could go visit it. Anyone have any suggestions on a fairly affordable, decent colo provider around here that I could use?

alive -
My company (link: http://www.patriot.net/ ) used to do it, but we got tired of people wanting in to our colo facility at all hours of the night.
Now we do "leased server" so we technically own the box, but it's yours to administer.
We might be doing colo again soon at our actual offices, not at our AboveNet facility, but it would only be on a T1.

how much are you looking to spend max per month?

A price range would help with this sort of thing.

As little as possible? I'm not sure exactly how much money I'll have at my disposal, but $150 or so a month is probably the max, and something like $99 would be more likely.

don't mean to be discouraging but for that kind of money, good luck finding a place that will let you on site any meaningful amount or frequency.

I'll ask around though

Oh... well, I'd only need to visit if the server became FUBARed due to my own incompetence.

check out http://www.vix.com/personalcolo/

there are a few in the VA/MD area listed and some are $50-$100/mo for a decent amount of bandwidth.

Good luck getting past the install script of FreeBSD. Hopefully you're not a novice. You'll probably have to do some tweaking to that install script....I did.

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I know this is perhaps a topic talked about too much but why choose FreeBSD? I know it is supposed to be secure but I don't think it would be anymore secure than another distrobution with the NSA security patches and perhaps a program called Harden. I personally like Debian because you can do all this without upgrading your system package by package. A few clicks and you can have all this done. Even better, if you fuck up the box, you can reinstall everything from scratch using a file that can be generated containing the list of apps. There is even automatic updating or manual if you choose. Just my thoughts.

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