[OT]: Cdn hosting for (extremely) high-load web sites?
Yanni Chiu
yanni-bJEeYj9oJeDQT0dZR+AlfA at public.gmane.org
Wed Aug 6 05:05:02 UTC 2008
Scott Elcomb wrote:
> Can anyone recommend a hosting company that provides high-end
> dedicated servers at a decent price?
(1) http://hetzner.de/rootserver_en.html
- hosts the squeak.org site
- the biggest offering I see on their site is: AMD Athlon 64 X2 6000+
Dual Core, 8 GB DDR2 RAM, 2x750 GB SATA II (Hardware RAID1). It costs
149 euros/month, add 39 for daily backup, add 135 to top up the
bandwidth to 2,500GB (additional 1500 at 0.09 euros), and convert to
Cdn$, you get $522.
(2) http://www.slicehost.com
- suggested by Avi Bryant of dabbledb fame
- a 4GB RAM, 160GB disk, 1600GB bandwidth slice goes for $280/month
(probably US$). It's a slice of a quad core 64-bit RAID-10 machine
- add $60 for backup (price based on slice size, but site only shows $30
for the slice half this size)
- add 900 x 0.30 = 270 to top up the bandwidth
- totals $610, but you might be able to negotiate a better rate for the
backup and bandwidth.
It looks like your original quote of $500 was pretty good.
I've not used these services, but they're the ones I've been
considering. I've never really cranked the numbers on the bandwidth
before, so it's been an eye-opening exercise.
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Yanni Chiu
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