Check out the dedicated server specials at layeredtech.com
At ($49/mo) it's possibly cheaper than a colo and you don't
have to
spend money for the hardware.
I think if you pay one year in advance, there is an
additional discount.
I've had a mail server hosted there for the past 2 1/2 years
without any
problems.
If you want to run your own server, but are not a fanatical
security
sysadmin, theplanet.com (formerly ev1servers.net, which was
formerly
rackshack.net) is a little bit more expensive, but they
employ Tipping
Point firewall, which, interestingly blocks application
level attacks
such as PHP include exploits, SQL injections, and other
common
vulnerabilities in popular apps such as PhpBB. I would not
count on it
to fully block all "0-day" exploits, but you might
sleep better knowing
that if you don't have time to immediately update PHPBB,
your machine
less likely to get hacked overnight 
~Rolan
bz-gmort beezifies.com wrote:
>> Gary, this is in fact where we met - I can get you
in touch with Alex if
>> you'd like (http://www.pilosoft.com).
>
> Ahh, cool.
>
> Right now it's more a question of finding out what is
around.
>
> Basically, I have to get in a dense urban mindset. Out
in suburbia,
> the idea of owning my own server and doing remote
maintenance is just
> a royal PITA. Especially as the uptime I require is a
lot lower than
> industry standard(it's non mission critical). This
means I can cheap
> out on the hardware and still be fine. The downside of
cheaping out
> on the hardware is, of course, dealing with hardware
failures.
> Remotely this would be a pain, but in a place like NYC,
it's a simple
> matter to swing by, pick up an HD, swap the drives, and
done.
>
> So now I want to get an idea of what the costs
associated are to
> consider whether or not I want to go that route(yeah
yeah, wasn't I
> just complaining last month about the headaches of
setting this up?
> But now I'm looking at AIM bots again and I'm reminded
that having a
> system with large HD capacity and the ability to run
daemons has it's
> plusses)
>
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