Dedicated server prices?

ted leslie tleslie-RBVUpeUoHUc at public.gmane.org
Wed Jul 6 23:48:08 UTC 2005


i almost forgot,
you also have to watch it,
some hosting places are using a virtual-kernel setup, where you are private in OS level
but underneath you are sharing the box, unbeknown to you.
But then again if you dont need to hog a machine .. this might be ok.

-tl

On Wed, Jul 06, 2005 at 06:31:07PM -0400, Rob Sutherland wrote:
> ted leslie wrote:
> 
> >I needed to host a client on a dedicated service in Canada due to possible 
> >legal issue
> >with respect to file sharing (they were doing). [so we didnt want to host 
> >in US]
> >I researched and found Netnation to be the best value  500 GB / month, 
> >160GB Raid, or 320 GB non-raid,
> >2.8 GHZ, etc,etc, (250$/mon or around that)
> > 
> >
> It's interesting - when you get up into that size of hard drive, they 
> start to converge - ie serverbeach.com has
> a
> 
> 2 X AMD Athlon MP 2600 Processor
> 2GB Registered PC2100 Memory
> 2 X 80 GB Hard Drive
> 2000 GB Bandwidth
> 
> for $219/US
> 
> but what I don't seem to see are cheap lower end systems in Canada, that 
> $79/US/mo price is for a
> 
> 1GHz AMD Processor
> 512MB Memory
> 60 GB Hard Drive
> 900 GB Bandwidth
> 
> oops, there's one in Alberta that has a 40GB hd, 20GB bandwidth for 
> $119/US/mo but it's Windows
> only :-(
> 
> >
> >seems to me you have to decide exactly what HD requirement you need, then 
> >choose,
> >
> > 
> >
> I only need around 60-80Gb
> 
> Rob
> 
> 
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