peterw
New Member
A lot of people are talking about the OVH low end dedicated server. An Atom cpu and a single hard disk. But 500GB of harddisk, 2GB of RAM and unlimited bandwith.
Yearly costs: 47,84€ or 63$. A budget of 5$ a month.
If I look to the known providers I get
I do my backups and I am happy with an IO of 100Mbit/s so raid is not a argument. Bandwith is a plus for the dedicated server.
1Gbit port means 10800 GB per month. If I use the limited 500GB traffic I would use 4,6% of the potential traffic.
100 Mbit port means 1080 GB per month. If I use the limited 500GB traffic I would use 46% of the potential traffic.
100Mbit port is enough for my usage and if I look to the numbers the bandwith of vps servers with 100 Mbit port are highly oversold. So again a plus for the low end dedicated server.
Same with the cpu. All offers talk about number of cores but openvz is managing threads. We are not allowed to use 100% of the virtual cores. We are not allowed to abuse the system load.
My result is that I will not buy any oversold offers but I will rent one of the low end dedicated servers because I am able to use 100% of the resources at any time.
Did I miss some arguments?
Yearly costs: 47,84€ or 63$. A budget of 5$ a month.
If I look to the known providers I get
- 512MB of RAM
- 50 GB of diskspace
- 1-2 shared "cores"
- 3072MB of RAM
- 50GB of diskspace
- 3 shared "cores"
I do my backups and I am happy with an IO of 100Mbit/s so raid is not a argument. Bandwith is a plus for the dedicated server.
1Gbit port means 10800 GB per month. If I use the limited 500GB traffic I would use 4,6% of the potential traffic.
100 Mbit port means 1080 GB per month. If I use the limited 500GB traffic I would use 46% of the potential traffic.
100Mbit port is enough for my usage and if I look to the numbers the bandwith of vps servers with 100 Mbit port are highly oversold. So again a plus for the low end dedicated server.
Same with the cpu. All offers talk about number of cores but openvz is managing threads. We are not allowed to use 100% of the virtual cores. We are not allowed to abuse the system load.
My result is that I will not buy any oversold offers but I will rent one of the low end dedicated servers because I am able to use 100% of the resources at any time.
Did I miss some arguments?