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why oh why people does not look around for dedicated host price before going into that much trouble ? see this for example http://www.kimsufi.co.uk/ks/ http://
by zwetan 16y ago
why oh why people does not look around for dedicated host price before going into that much trouble ?
see this for example http://www.kimsufi.co.uk/ks/ http://www.kimsufi.co.uk/ks/ (note: I don't work for OVH)
that's about 25$/month, look at the specs for yourself.
the pros:
* if the hardware go down in flame they replace it. period.
* a nice choice of distrib (Linux / BSD / Solaris / Windows)
* the fcking bandwidth (agreed it would be mainly fast for europe)
the cons:
you will have to do the admin yourself (for the lower prices), and that can take time depending on what you need/do.
* after using this you will find any broadband offer awfully slow
* you will not be able to live without a dedicated server ;)
I'm not trying to be negative here, but this kind of hosting is much cheaper than hosting the hardware yourself.
- lsc 16y agoThat box has only one disk, which is inappropriate for most uses. Sure, they'll put up another server for you, but that's not the hard part; the hard part is restoring your backup. Until you are large enough to have redundant everything, mirrored disk, I think, is a must.
- zwetan 16y agoso ? there is a 100MB extern drive accessible via FTP, and rsync is your friend at the very worst, when your server is on a 100MBps link then it's dirt cheap (in time and money) to do the backup on the cloud
- lsc 16y agoif you do that, and you test your backup, and you are okay getting paged, waking up, following the procedure, then dealing with the half day of downtime, sure, that's fine. but a mirror is still a whole lot easier. it just keeps chugging through the drive failure.