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I wouldn't necessarily agree with renting as long as you can. You can buy a very cheap server that's much more capable than a cheap VPS server. Here are some d

by tworats 16y ago

I wouldn't necessarily agree with renting as long as you can. You can buy a very cheap server that's much more capable than a cheap VPS server. Here are some decent servers for about $300; you can often find good servers for $150: http://www.geeks.com/products_sc.asp?Cat=821 http://www.geeks.com/products_sc.asp?Cat=821 Colocation at a good facility costs $60-100. So for $150-$300 upfront and $60-$100 monthly, you can have a capable server hosted at a good facility at a much cheaper cost than the equivalent "rented" server. You can use a VPS or something like EC2 as a hot backup, setup replication, and have a very capable setup for not a lot of cost. This assumes that you have sys admin skills.

abiczo 16y ago
So for $150-$300 upfront and $60-$100 monthly, you can have a capable server hosted at a good facility at a much cheaper cost than the equivalent "rented" server. If you're OK with the servers being hosted in Germany, you can rent a quite powerful dedicated server from http://hetzner.de http://hetzner.de for roughly the same amount of money. Look for the EQ4-10 servers (http://www.hetzner.de/en/hosting/produktmatrix/rootserver-produktmatrix-eq/ http://www.hetzner.de/en/hosting/produktmatrix/rootserver-pr...) I've been with them for almost a year now and I can only recommend them.
kazoolist 16y ago
If you are considering buying one of the servers listed at the above geeks.com link, take care in doing so. The ones for < $890 are running NetBurst Xeons ... which means, at the youngest, they're nearly 4 1/2 years old. The one at $890 uses a Xeon 5120 which at least gets you into the Core Xeon era, but you're still looking at a more than 4 year old processor. If you are going to cheap-out, at least do yourself a favor and buy something low-end-but-new from somewhere like Dell. You can pick up a new PowerEdge T110 from Dell for $400 which comes with a only-released-a-year-ago Xeon X3430 which is going to be about 3 times faster than that Xeon 5120. Plus you're going to have a faster FSB, memory, drives, networking, modern interface to upgrade with, etc. If you're looking at spending $1k/yr for colocating your server, make it worth it by co-loc-ing a server that's not 5 years old.
- tworats 16y ago
  Fair enough, but either option is going to be much more than you'd get in a basic VPS.

by tworats 16y ago

abiczo 16y ago

So for $150-$300 upfront and $60-$100 monthly, you can have a capable server hosted at a good facility at a much cheaper cost than the equivalent "rented" server. If you're OK with the servers being hosted in Germany, you can rent a quite powerful dedicated server from http://hetzner.de http://hetzner.de for roughly the same amount of money. Look for the EQ4-10 servers (http://www.hetzner.de/en/hosting/produktmatrix/rootserver-produktmatrix-eq/ http://www.hetzner.de/en/hosting/produktmatrix/rootserver-pr...) I've been with them for almost a year now and I can only recommend them.

kazoolist 16y ago

If you are considering buying one of the servers listed at the above geeks.com link, take care in doing so. The ones for < $890 are running NetBurst Xeons ... which means, at the youngest, they're nearly 4 1/2 years old. The one at $890 uses a Xeon 5120 which at least gets you into the Core Xeon era, but you're still looking at a more than 4 year old processor. If you are going to cheap-out, at least do yourself a favor and buy something low-end-but-new from somewhere like Dell. You can pick up a new PowerEdge T110 from Dell for $400 which comes with a only-released-a-year-ago Xeon X3430 which is going to be about 3 times faster than that Xeon 5120. Plus you're going to have a faster FSB, memory, drives, networking, modern interface to upgrade with, etc. If you're looking at spending $1k/yr for colocating your server, make it worth it by co-loc-ing a server that's not 5 years old.

tworats 16y ago
Fair enough, but either option is going to be much more than you'd get in a basic VPS.