[olug] Cox Business Pricing

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I have been using the Cox Business 512/7M Soho and a small CIDR block of IPs (12 usable) for the past year and have been very happy.  I'm only running a few webservers and  mail server, nothing fancy -- but for about $100, I can't complain.  I would like to have better upload speed (customer download), but haven't really needed that yet.  

Still holding out to see if the Colo materializes...  

I tried several of the vps options, but I really wanted to run Zimbra as my mail/collaboration suite and the memory requirements for that would have cost me way too much.  I like having the physical hardware at my fingertips... but agree with others, that is not always a good thing.

---- Kevin <sharpestmarble at gmail.com> wrote: 
> On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 20:28, Dave Rowe <dave at roweware.com> wrote:
> > On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 11:40 AM, Rob Townley <rob.townley at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> 5 year _contract_ and telephone bundling should help.
> >>
> >
> > Got a call from a sales rep, who left a voicemail.  Sounds like they
> > offer 'Home Office' pricing.  When I tried to look up rates for 'Home
> > Office' tiers, I only found a listing for Roanoke, VA
> > (http://ww2.cox.com/business/roanoke/data/pricing.cox), and the
> > discount wasn't that great.
> >
> > All I want is the current residential package I'm on, without the port
> > restrictions.  You'd think they'd open the option for the market, in
> > order to pick up a few extra bucks at, really, little to no cost to
> > them.  I'm willing to pay a small premium ($5 - 10/month for no port
> > restrictions and a single static IP), but over 4 times the cost?  Not
> > worth it.
> >
> > Am I missing something?
> 
> 
> No you're not missing something, but they are. They're missing the
> money. They can charge a bundle for it and so they do.
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