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Why are you looking at cost and not the retail value? Just the unmetered 10Mbit line itself will cost you over $100-$150 for a co-located server. I think this o
by coverband 16y ago
Why are you looking at cost and not the retail value? Just the unmetered 10Mbit line itself will cost you over $100-$150 for a co-located server. I think this offer is a pretty good deal.
- dnsworks 16y agoWell then looking on webhostingtalk.com, the retail value for this is about $60-$75/month, not $200. There are quite a few tricks the dedicated server market plays to keep costs inline when over-selling. Small hard drives, slower processors, overloaded routers, limits on usage (like how dreamhost won't let you use your 500GB of storage as backup), multiple tiers of bandwidth (I wouldn't be surprised if these servers are put into a specific prefix where all outgoing bandwidth from that bandwidth is sent over a mixture of low-end providers like Cogent/HE/Bandcon, and creative prefix announcements send most of the incoming bandwidth over one of those three providers as well). There are at least a dozen things an operator could do in order to make an offering like this cost them nothing on the books, and on the same note they would still sell these servers in their closeouts/specials section, or use them as freebies in larger deals.