Brand X Internet

Brand X Co-Location

• What is Server Co-Location?

  Many customers think they need to get their own T1 connection to support Web or FTP sites. Not necessary! You can bring in your server to us and connect it directly to our network to the Internet. This gives your server T1 access at a fraction of the price of your own T1 connection! You'll still be able to control your server and send files to it through a standard modem connection.

• Co-Location Pricing

  We offer co-location starting at $300 per month. This includes 30Gb of traffic per calendar month. Additional traffic is $10 per Gb per calendar month. Please note that traffic is determined based on extrapolations from brief samples. Brand X shall be the sole arbitratoror of your level of traffic. Access is limited to business hours. Your computer must support 10BaseT ethernet. There's no other way to get T1 access for your Web site at anything near this cost! It's the cheapest way to put your entire server on a fast connection to the Internet!

• Super High Bandwidth Pricing

  In some cases where super-high bandwidth is required we may offer pricing based on estimate 95th percentile usage. Price is $1,000 per megabit with base price of $300. "Estimated 95th percentile" means we look at your traffic graph, throw away the top 5% which we assume are traffic peaks, then estimate your traffic. We may estimate this month on last month, or simply estimate based on our best judgement. Decisions of our system admin staff are final. Deposits are usually required.

• What you get

  Colocation means you plug the computer into our network. Traffic up to 30 gigs per month is included. This is usually enough for any reasonable server that isn't running porn. If you are planning to run the new "Yahoo" then talk to us and we will make you a deal on larger bandwidth. But currently we do not have any servers paying bandwidth charges.

  Colocation also includes two domain name servics and 8 ip addresses. More are available if needed. There are no setup charges and we will help you if you need it.

• What you need

  First you need a web server. There are many available. Must customers build their own using Linux, Windows 2000 or another of the popular operating systems. You need an ethernet port to hook up your computer. and you should have a UPS to guaranty that your server stays up if there are minor power fluctuations. A UPS is not required, but we strongly advise them, and most customers do provide UPS units.

  Additional note as of 1/5/01: Due to current power fluctuations and political issues with the power companies, Brand X Internet must warn all customers that we are unable to control the activities of the power companies and we are unable to guaranty what impact rolling blackouts or other issues may have on services.

• Turnkey Unix Web Server

  If you don't already have one, Brand X would be happy to provide a turnkey solution for about $4,000, depending on your exact requirements. The basic unit is a Pentium computer running BSD Unix with the Apache Web Server, e-mail, FTP, Telnet and all other Internet services. Or we'd be happy to advise you on a cheaper system or even a really powerful server for your big time web site.

Restrictions

• Absolutely no SPAM'ing.

  Brand X Internet's policy on SPAM

  Brand X Internet does not condone the practice of spam'ing (the sending of unwanted email). If we find anyone utilizing our network to send SPAM (which includes collecting information in order to send SPAM, sending out SPAM which includes a Brand X mailbox or Brand X hosted mailserver, or sending out SPAM which advertises a site hosted on the Brand X network) they agree to and will be billed $5.00 per email sent in addition to a $10,000 per incident fine. In addition, we will, to the fullest extent allowed by law, seek legal action on any individual(s), organization(s) and or company(s) that violate this policy. Please report any violations to Brand X Internet's Abuse Dept abuse@brandx.net.

• No adult hosting. You may not provide hosting services for any adult material. (Please note: On Brand X, you may always download and view whatever you wish. The restriction is against using your connection as a point of distribution.)

Please note that all rates are subject
to change without notice.

Please note that all services provided are
subject to our terms & conditions.

We offer discounts on all of our monthly charges
if you prepay for one year or more.