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What are some of the lowest rates you have paid for a dedicated box?
ForwardWeb
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Just out of curiosity, what are some of the lowest monthly (non promo) rates you have paid for a dedicated server and at what cost?
The second part to this question, what were the specs of the server, what was it used for and how reliable was the dedicated box?
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My Online.net kidechire for €1.99/month and my Online.net 8 core, 8GB RAM, 160GB SSD box for €10.99/month. They both have been very reliable.
-edit- added euro :-)
1,99? what currency?
@brian777, both are euro
€1.99 for Online.net Kidechire
Those are both promo I'm pretty sure. Cheapest regular price I know for a dedi (4 core ARM with 50gb ssd) is 2.99 euro/month from scaleway.com. I've had one for a year or so, mostly idle but it works nicely if you don't need a lot of computing power. If you want something more heavy duty, better post what specs you want.
Yup, both were promos...I usually miss out on a lot of the good deals that sell really fast (like some of the kimsufis, vortex's atoms, etc) so I was really happy to get in on the Online.net deals (especially the 10.99 euro deal which I love).
if you love it so much, why not marry it?
I wish they will bring that promo again, i just like the dedicated CPU so i wouldn't worry with my usage anymore, anyway the CPU is ARM, is there any GPU like Adreno, Mali, or such?
My two boxes with @Virmach at $29 USD and $30 USD are probably the cheapest
The kidechires were not exactly available in huge quantity so you would have been lucky to get one. I don't remember what cpu the have but it wasn't terribly fast iirc.
I don't know if the Marvell chip in the Scaleways have a gpu but the Mali etc. have no FOSS support to speak of anyway. If you want to transcode video or something, you may be better off with an x86 box. Note that Scaleway has those 8 core Atom dedis with 16gb ram for 3.6 eurocents/hour if you want one for just a little while. Atoms are slow though.
I agree with you that having a dedi is liberating. I rented one at Hetzner partly because it was the cheapest way to get a lot of storage at the time, but I've also done some large computations on it (>1 week nonstop on all 4 cores) that would have been intolerable on cheap vps's. I'm spending around 30 usd/month on it and as a serious geek I figure it's worth that much just to have a nice fast knockaround box available whenever I want it.
I've seen some other decent dedi deals at 200/year (delimiter) or 239/year (forget where) recently. You can also get a buyvm slice with no cpu limits starting at 3.50 usd/month, but that's fair share i.e. you won't get anything like the speed of a full core much less a dedi.
because it's still a cheap slut
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2,99 at scaleway. Although one could argue those are not really dedicated...
The file system is a network block store in the same rack iirc, so there's no local storage, but it's a dedi in the sense that you have the cpu and memory to yourself. E.g. I'd expect mlock(2) to lock memory pages for real, rather than simulating a lock that could still be paged out by a hypervisor. I could see using that for some security stuff that I wouldn't be willing to run on a VPS. Similarly there's no other users running programs than can mess with cache timing etc.
How come?
Because the storage is on a shared device. The cpu and ram are dedicated.
kidechire - €1.99/month ( Online.net )