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Oh I see, datashack.com goes to a completely different company, looks like some domain squatting going on ;-). But, datashack.net says that Opteron 8220 plan is out of stock.

Looking at http://www.cpubenchmark.net/pt7_cpu_list.php it claims a dual Opteron 8220 runs at 3651 Passmark, which is much better than I expected.  So four of them would be in the 7000 range.  That is the same general ballpark as the i5-3570 (a little slower, but the extra ram is good). Is that...

Appliance templates: discussion board, blog, mediawiki, VPN, VOIP (Asterisk), etc. BuyVM has a big selection (not sure where they came from), if you want inspiration.

xmonad is by far the geekiest.  Not flashy at all, just quiet authority ;).

Interesting.  That is a similar price and configuration to the OVH KS1, except with a 4-core cpu (an upgrade from earlier when they were using the 2-core low power version, I think).  The cpu has no hyperthreading so it is probably comparable to the i5-3570S in the OVH SP1.  By my measurement...

I don't think OVH does special offers other than the "serveurs bons" in France sometimes.  Mine are through ovh.us and the regular prices are already super low.  I'm completely happy with them for quiet personal use.  I'd be leery of doing anything like VPS hosting on them because of OVH's...

I've heard the cheap Rosewill (Newegg house brand) routers are rebranded tp-link.  I have one and it worked fine with the factory firmware when I was using it.  I never got around to putting dd-wrt or whatever on it.

I thought the requirement was "under $20" which means $19.99 or below.  If $20 counts, hostigation.com has that.

lowendspirit.com (ipv6+NAT), cheapest of them all.

Interesting including the nginx comparison.  I guess redis suffers a bit because of the extra tcp roundtrip.  Overall unless you have super high traffic, I think it's simplest to use one of the new cheap SSD vps's, which should get rid of almost all of the traditional mysql lag.  I'm very...

Openssh has a socks proxy built in.  Just say "ssh -D8888 yourserver" and ssh opens a tunnel to the other server (which could even be localhost afaik) and you can configure your browser to use it.  I use vps's as socks proxies this way all the time.

Thanks Anthony, I edited the review based on your corrections.  For the nslookup and round robin, I just ran it a few times and then figured out by testing which address was which :D. There is an interesting feature that I forgot to mention because I haven't tried it, which is high availability...

This sounds like a good place to use nested virtualization (weren't we seeing some drama about that recently, heh heh).  A 2gb KVM or Xen vps with a single ipv4 and a small ipv6 block could host dozens of these LES things.

I think this is the future of ultra cheap VPS hosting.  I have two of them now and am just having a blast.  For 3 euros (about $4) per year, yes per YEAR, you get a small VPS in UK or NL, with a reasonable hunk of bandwidth.  The catch is you don't get a dedicated ipv4 address.  You get five...

1. The i5 will probably be faster despite having half as many total cores.  The extra ram of the AMD could be useful for some things though. 2. A dedi with just one disk (no RAID) is scary, especially on that older server where the drive may already be beat to hell.  It's one thing if you're...

1. I thought the cheapest dedis were from European companies (OVH, Hetzner, online.net).  They have better internet connectivity there and I think power might be cheaper in France. 2. I have two OVH dedis (about to release one) at OVH Canada.  The DC is apparently built at the site of an old...

I looked at discourse and hated it and the whole philosophy behind it.  IPB is nothing great but it doesn't have nearly the awful client side bloat and slowness and stupid icons that discourse seems to have.  I think bigger boards eventually end up migrating to VBB, which I'm not that crazy...

Most of the dotcom startup sector (i.e. a bit more upscale than the LEB industry, but still operating on the cheap) seems to use Stripe.  I very much prefer them to Paypal, which is a medium for ebay dealers and other ghetto operations.

Between write wear (possibly a serious issue if you're buying from server operators) and fast technical change, I think you should buy new SSD's.

I agree with this review (I have 3 vps's with them in Buffalo).  Ipxcore is IMHO not the most technologically bleeding edge of the LEB hosts, and they had some bogus drama at their previous (Atjeu) colo maybe because of this.  But they seem very determined to make things work, and you really get...