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Kimsufi are a great low-cost provider, I ran an Atom dedi with a 1TB disk with them for 2 years at around £12 a month. Never had any problems - great bandwidth
by gargravarr 10y ago
Kimsufi are a great low-cost provider, I ran an Atom dedi with a 1TB disk with them for 2 years at around £12 a month. Never had any problems - great bandwidth to move data around, mostly used the big disk for offsite backups. However, an important consideration - they don't adjust their pricing for existing customers or allow the hardware to be upgraded. Around the 2-year mark, they dropped the price for the same server to just £3 a month and doubled the RAM. I was told if I wanted it, I'd have to give up my current server and move everything to a brand-new one. They wouldn't drop the price, and when I asked about doubling the RAM, was told it wasn't an option. They then put the price of my dedi up not a month later. I cancelled the server and have run my own hardware since then.
Good for a specific use, but as the low price implies, there is no option to scale in future.
- webtechgal 10y agoThanks for all this info. Just out of curiosity, when they offered the same config as your £12/mo box for £3/mo and refused to reduce your billing, could you not have simply bought the cheaper one, taken a snapshot of the existing server, transferred it over to the new one and discontinued the older one?
- gargravarr 10y agoI couldn't have done so using the KS dashboard, for example. As it was Linux, I could have cloned the machine fairly easily, but it seemed silly to me to go to all that trouble, essentially throwing away the original server and starting again. At the time, my need for a hosted machine was decreasing so I didn't want to expend much effort anyway.