How much does rackspace cost? Any suggestions on colocation facities?

The cost of colo rackspace is normally made up of two main elements, the two elements being the physical space you need and the bandwidth you need.

The actual costs (in the UK at least) vary a great deal, with 1U of space and 10GB of bandwidth a month costining anywhere between 50 quid and several hundred quid.

Bandwidth is priced in one of two ways, either on the total amount of bandwidth you use in a month, or your bandwidth is permanently fixed at a particular level. The former gives you more flexiblity, but at the risk of running up high monthly bandwidth costs. The later gives you a known cost each month, but if lots of people hit your server at once things might get slow.

How did you decide on where to host your stuff?

On price mainly, I need something cheap. At the moment I am paying 100 quid a month for a business ADSL line, which I host my DNS/mail/WWW on the end of. I want to replace this with a 30 quid a month consumer ADSL line and then move my servers to a colo, so the colo needs to cost less than 70 quid a month...

However, as far as I can see the guys at BlackCatNetworks also seem to know what they are doing and I haven't managed to find any unhappy customers.

At 41 quid a month (if you pay yearly) they are the cheapest I have found for 1U and 10 GB a month (that's bytes not bits by the way). They charge 15 quid a month for each extra U and 5 quid per GB. Unusually they also include access to a APC MasterSwitch in the price so that you can reboot your server if it has gone tits up, most people charge extra for this.

If you search on google for "uk colocation" you will find plentty of others, but most start at nearer 100 quid a month for a similar package.

N.B. I have not yet used BlackCatNetworks, or in fact any other colo provider.