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It might be too pricy, but if you go to about 25usd/month, you can get a dedicated server with an i7 from hetzner server auction. These cheap boxes don't have e

by e12e 5y ago

It might be too pricy, but if you go to about 25usd/month, you can get a dedicated server with an i7 from hetzner server auction. These cheap boxes don't have ecc ram etc - but should work well for things like this. https://www.hetzner.com/sb?country=us https://www.hetzner.com/sb?country=us

ipaddr 5y ago
The cheapest available right now was 140 euro. When do the 25 dollar server come out?
- PaywallBuster 5y ago
  I can see few options for 23.53 EUR right there Either way, it's auction page, may not always have the deals you're looking for in this price range
- grp000 5y ago
  If the cheapest is $25/month, I think it would just make sense to get a used school/office PC. I was able to pick up a used Haswell i5, 8GB of memory PC for $200, which you would probably get better performance out of, and break even at ~8 month mark. That being said, pandemic prices might shift those numbers.
  - e12e 5y ago
    Nothing wrong with getting a used pc, but do you have 1gb uplink at home? In the cheapest offers right now, there's a Intel Core i7-4770, 2x 2 TB Ent. HDD (spinning rust, not ssd) with 32 GB ram. And a xeon box with ecc ram (same, low price).
    - Jweb_Guru 5y ago
      Also, even if you do have a 1 Gbps uplink, a lot of providers will throttle you if they suspect you're actually hosting a server that tries to utilize most of that bandwidth in anything but bursts.
      - bluedino 5y ago
        For example, 1TB monthly is really only 10mbs...common quota for hosted servers.
- corobo 5y ago
  When someone cancels their old server and they recycle it into the auction system
- freemint 5y ago
  They are in a separate category called Serverbörse [1]. The cheapest currently available is for 28€ a i7-3770 with 16GB RAM and 2x3TB spinning rust. [1] https://www.hetzner.com/sb https://www.hetzner.com/sb
jaflo 5y ago
On the page, one option advertised is for €23.53/month with an Intel Core i7-4770, 2 TB HDD, and 32 GB RAM. What’s the catch? How is it possible to rent such hardware for so cheap?
- xuki 5y ago
  No catch. Cloud services are extremely expensive when it comes to computing. If you need raw power, rent a dedicated server. Edit: For a little more a month, you can get a Ryzen 3600, 64GB of RAM and much faster NVMe SSD: https://www.hetzner.com/dedicated-rootserver/ax41-nvme https://www.hetzner.com/dedicated-rootserver/ax41-nvme
- NavinF 5y ago
  Ehh you can get cheaper compute in Fremont if you're willing to rent >=1 rack. I'm guessing you only think €23.53/mo is cheap because you've been getting reamed by AWS pricing :P
  - xuki 5y ago
    Can I have a link please? I'm a sucker for cheap dedicated servers :).
    - NavinF 5y ago
      I use he.net/colocation To be clear, I'm taking about racking your own servers, not cloud "dedicated servers"
      - e12e 5y ago
        I'm not sure what you imply with the quotes around dedicated servers - this is hardware for rent, not VMs (hetzner has VMs too, starting from about 5usd/month - but that's something else). You do need to go a bit up in price for proper server hw - although there are a few aging xeon boxes with ecc ram on the low end now.
- Jweb_Guru 5y ago
merlinscholz 5y ago
If you go with Oracle Cloud, you can get an 4-core, 24gb RAM aarch64 server for free. I've been using it for minecraft and it performs excellent, especially combined with PaperMC
- e12e 5y ago
  Note, looks like oracle cloud has a nice free tier, but that's not a dedicated arm server, but a vm (but still, with 24 cores): https://www.oracle.com/cloud/free/?source=:ow:o:p:nav:0916BCButton https://www.oracle.com/cloud/free/?source=:ow:o:p:nav:0916BC... > Infrastructure > 2 AMD based Compute VMs with 1/8 OCPU* and 1 GB memory each. > 4 Arm-based Ampere A1 cores and 24 GB of memory usable as one VM or up to 4 VMs. > 2 Block Volumes Storage, 200 GB total. > 10 GB Object Storage. > 10 GB Archive Storage. Just to compare with Hetzner - you would typically be able to get 16 or 32gb ram, an i7 with 4 cores and 2x1tb disk (no ssd). I'm guessing single core performance might be higher than the arm offering - and a better fit for minecraft. Ed: although maybe core count would win out with PaperMC?

by e12e 5y ago

ipaddr 5y ago

The cheapest available right now was 140 euro. When do the 25 dollar server come out?

PaywallBuster 5y ago
I can see few options for 23.53 EUR right there Either way, it's auction page, may not always have the deals you're looking for in this price range
grp000 5y ago
If the cheapest is $25/month, I think it would just make sense to get a used school/office PC. I was able to pick up a used Haswell i5, 8GB of memory PC for $200, which you would probably get better performance out of, and break even at ~8 month mark. That being said, pandemic prices might shift those numbers.
- e12e 5y ago
  Nothing wrong with getting a used pc, but do you have 1gb uplink at home? In the cheapest offers right now, there's a Intel Core i7-4770, 2x 2 TB Ent. HDD (spinning rust, not ssd) with 32 GB ram. And a xeon box with ecc ram (same, low price).
  - Jweb_Guru 5y ago
    Also, even if you do have a 1 Gbps uplink, a lot of providers will throttle you if they suspect you're actually hosting a server that tries to utilize most of that bandwidth in anything but bursts.
    - bluedino 5y ago
      For example, 1TB monthly is really only 10mbs...common quota for hosted servers.
corobo 5y ago
When someone cancels their old server and they recycle it into the auction system
freemint 5y ago
They are in a separate category called Serverbörse [1]. The cheapest currently available is for 28€ a i7-3770 with 16GB RAM and 2x3TB spinning rust. [1] https://www.hetzner.com/sb https://www.hetzner.com/sb

jaflo 5y ago

On the page, one option advertised is for €23.53/month with an Intel Core i7-4770, 2 TB HDD, and 32 GB RAM. What’s the catch? How is it possible to rent such hardware for so cheap?

xuki 5y ago
No catch. Cloud services are extremely expensive when it comes to computing. If you need raw power, rent a dedicated server. Edit: For a little more a month, you can get a Ryzen 3600, 64GB of RAM and much faster NVMe SSD: https://www.hetzner.com/dedicated-rootserver/ax41-nvme https://www.hetzner.com/dedicated-rootserver/ax41-nvme
NavinF 5y ago
Ehh you can get cheaper compute in Fremont if you're willing to rent >=1 rack. I'm guessing you only think €23.53/mo is cheap because you've been getting reamed by AWS pricing :P
- xuki 5y ago
  Can I have a link please? I'm a sucker for cheap dedicated servers :).
  - NavinF 5y ago
    I use he.net/colocation To be clear, I'm taking about racking your own servers, not cloud "dedicated servers"
    - e12e 5y ago
      I'm not sure what you imply with the quotes around dedicated servers - this is hardware for rent, not VMs (hetzner has VMs too, starting from about 5usd/month - but that's something else). You do need to go a bit up in price for proper server hw - although there are a few aging xeon boxes with ecc ram on the low end now.
Jweb_Guru 5y ago

merlinscholz 5y ago

If you go with Oracle Cloud, you can get an 4-core, 24gb RAM aarch64 server for free. I've been using it for minecraft and it performs excellent, especially combined with PaperMC

e12e 5y ago
Note, looks like oracle cloud has a nice free tier, but that's not a dedicated arm server, but a vm (but still, with 24 cores): https://www.oracle.com/cloud/free/?source=:ow:o:p:nav:0916BCButton https://www.oracle.com/cloud/free/?source=:ow:o:p:nav:0916BC... > Infrastructure > 2 AMD based Compute VMs with 1/8 OCPU* and 1 GB memory each. > 4 Arm-based Ampere A1 cores and 24 GB of memory usable as one VM or up to 4 VMs. > 2 Block Volumes Storage, 200 GB total. > 10 GB Object Storage. > 10 GB Archive Storage. Just to compare with Hetzner - you would typically be able to get 16 or 32gb ram, an i7 with 4 cores and 2x1tb disk (no ssd). I'm guessing single core performance might be higher than the arm offering - and a better fit for minecraft. Ed: although maybe core count would win out with PaperMC?