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My hoster of many years charges for a similar setup 60 EUR, "unlimited" bandwidth (whatever you can pump though 100Mbit within a month), RAID10, etc, 75 GB exte

by yaix 15y ago

My hoster of many years charges for a similar setup 60 EUR, "unlimited" bandwidth (whatever you can pump though 100Mbit within a month), RAID10, etc, 75 GB external backup, as a managed server. And at another big hosting company you get an even bigger package for 45 EUR, not managed though. However, I remember that hosting in the US is surprisingly expensive for some reason, and has been for many years. Don't know why.

edu 15y ago
What company are you using?
- yaix 15y ago
  I am using netclusive, but I think they only have a German language site. Others and with English site are Server4you or Hetzner.
- chappi42 15y ago
  It may be Hetzner (Germany). They have a 45 € root server with i7 quadcore, 16 Gb RAM, 2 x 3 Tb Disk (link: http://www.hetzner.de/hosting/produktmatrix/rootserver-produktmatrix-ex http://www.hetzner.de/hosting/produktmatrix/rootserver-produ...). I'm very content with what they provide, even good/friendly support.
  - dasrecht 15y ago
    In my opinion a very good choice. I run a EX4 Box there and i'm more than satisfied with the service they provide. Recently i fired up a Support Request around 5am and got a response 6am when their support team picks up work. during the day you usually don't have to wait longer than one hour for a support response. They have awesome hardware for reasonable prices... i migrated everything i own from ec2 to one EX4 box with 8 cores and 16 gig of ram for less than i payed at EC2...
- waitwhat 15y ago
  Also have a look at OVH's Kimsufi brand: http://www.kimsufi.com/fr/ http://www.kimsufi.com/fr/ i7 + 24GB RAM + 2TB disc + 100Mbps for €50 (they geo-restrict their plans, and I think only the French get unlimited bandwidth; UK people have to survive on "just" 15TB/month, for example)
  - dspillett 15y ago
    http://www.kimsufi.co.uk/ http://www.kimsufi.co.uk/ is showing unlimited for all three plans when I visit (from a UK IP address). I might have to get one of the lower spec (celeron/atom) machines for myself, do you have personal experience of the company?
    - waitwhat 15y ago
      Careful of the small-print: "The traffic is unlimited. If you exceed 5TB/month for the Kimsufi 2G, 10TB/month for the Kimsufi 16G or 15TB/month for the 24G Kimsufi the connection will be limited to 10 Mbps." My understanding is that if you do get restricted, the restriction isn't automatically lifted the next month. You might want to check with pre-sales to find out exactly what the process is. I have had a box with them on and off (more on than off) for the last couple of years. I'm not doing anything critical there, but have also had no issues. Everything seems rock solid (which it should be -- Wikipedia says that "The company has six datacentres housing more than 100,000 machines.") You can reinstall from the web control panel, they rent KVMs, not sure what else to add. The major things people tend to bring up in forum postings are: Kimsufi is the "non-professional" brand, and hardware support is slower than the OVH parent. Nothing ridiculous, but you aren't going to get a bad drive replaced within a couple of hours either. OVH has "low quality bandwidth". Of course, people making this complaint never quantify exactly what they mean by this. I just tested on my "24G" box, and see 30-40MB/s to cachefly, 90MB/s to Leaseweb in Amsterdam, 75MB/s to Linode in London, 3-4MB/s to Linode in Newark and Atlanta, 12MB/s to SoftLayer in Dallas, 10MB/s to SingleHop in Chicago, 11MB/s to Joe's Data Centre. (Of course these are large test files.) If you're interested, there's no setup fee and no minimum contract length (check this for yourself, obviously), so I'd say go for it.

by yaix 15y ago

edu 15y ago

What company are you using?

yaix 15y ago
I am using netclusive, but I think they only have a German language site. Others and with English site are Server4you or Hetzner.
chappi42 15y ago
It may be Hetzner (Germany). They have a 45 € root server with i7 quadcore, 16 Gb RAM, 2 x 3 Tb Disk (link: http://www.hetzner.de/hosting/produktmatrix/rootserver-produktmatrix-ex http://www.hetzner.de/hosting/produktmatrix/rootserver-produ...). I'm very content with what they provide, even good/friendly support.
- dasrecht 15y ago
  In my opinion a very good choice. I run a EX4 Box there and i'm more than satisfied with the service they provide. Recently i fired up a Support Request around 5am and got a response 6am when their support team picks up work. during the day you usually don't have to wait longer than one hour for a support response. They have awesome hardware for reasonable prices... i migrated everything i own from ec2 to one EX4 box with 8 cores and 16 gig of ram for less than i payed at EC2...
waitwhat 15y ago
Also have a look at OVH's Kimsufi brand: http://www.kimsufi.com/fr/ http://www.kimsufi.com/fr/ i7 + 24GB RAM + 2TB disc + 100Mbps for €50 (they geo-restrict their plans, and I think only the French get unlimited bandwidth; UK people have to survive on "just" 15TB/month, for example)
- dspillett 15y ago
  http://www.kimsufi.co.uk/ http://www.kimsufi.co.uk/ is showing unlimited for all three plans when I visit (from a UK IP address). I might have to get one of the lower spec (celeron/atom) machines for myself, do you have personal experience of the company?
  - waitwhat 15y ago
    Careful of the small-print: "The traffic is unlimited. If you exceed 5TB/month for the Kimsufi 2G, 10TB/month for the Kimsufi 16G or 15TB/month for the 24G Kimsufi the connection will be limited to 10 Mbps." My understanding is that if you do get restricted, the restriction isn't automatically lifted the next month. You might want to check with pre-sales to find out exactly what the process is. I have had a box with them on and off (more on than off) for the last couple of years. I'm not doing anything critical there, but have also had no issues. Everything seems rock solid (which it should be -- Wikipedia says that "The company has six datacentres housing more than 100,000 machines.") You can reinstall from the web control panel, they rent KVMs, not sure what else to add. The major things people tend to bring up in forum postings are: Kimsufi is the "non-professional" brand, and hardware support is slower than the OVH parent. Nothing ridiculous, but you aren't going to get a bad drive replaced within a couple of hours either. OVH has "low quality bandwidth". Of course, people making this complaint never quantify exactly what they mean by this. I just tested on my "24G" box, and see 30-40MB/s to cachefly, 90MB/s to Leaseweb in Amsterdam, 75MB/s to Linode in London, 3-4MB/s to Linode in Newark and Atlanta, 12MB/s to SoftLayer in Dallas, 10MB/s to SingleHop in Chicago, 11MB/s to Joe's Data Centre. (Of course these are large test files.) If you're interested, there's no setup fee and no minimum contract length (check this for yourself, obviously), so I'd say go for it.