Currently I pay $588/yr ($50/mo) for 1U colo services with CI Host. The box I have in their colo facility has 250GB of storage, and a handful of VMs running apocryph.org and a few other things. It hosts my expansive image gallery, a few databases, etc.

I’m starting to run out of space on this machine, and need a better solution. I could keep my machine at CI Host, but it would cost me $200 to ship it back here for an HDD upgrade, then back out again, plus a few hundred dollars for new drives. So, I starting looking around, and found the unbelievably good deal at Dreamhost.

For $19.95/mo (prepaid one year in advance, with 97-day refund policy), I get 400GB of storage (no, that’s not a typo, 0.4TB), and it increases by a GB or two every week, just like GMail storage. I also get 4096GB of monthly transfer bandwidth (yes, 4.0TB), which also increases each month. With a promo code I found in the forums, I saved $97 off the first year of service, so I paid $142.40 (as in, < $12/mo) for nearly twice the storage I currently have, for 1/4th of what I’m currently paying.

I’ll be transitioning all my properties over to my dreamhost account between now and May, when my CI Host contract is up for renewal, at which point I will enjoy no small bit of satisfaction in telling those incompetent fuckwits to get lost (though I’ll still have to pay $100 to get my box back).

If you sign up with them, use promo code ADAMSENTME; you’ll get the max possible discount, and I won’t get anything other than the satisfaction of knowing I’m spreading the wealth.