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...and 4x more disk, and for those on this side of the planet OVH is closer, so it may actually be a better location; add to that the likes of Hetzner, Digicube and online.net, and you can see that an Atom for $19 is nothing out of the ordinary these days, hence as I said "average", may be okay to good, but nothing amazing worth of immediately jumping at.
An i3-3220 with 8GB RAM and a 500GB disk would be nice!
This is the first time I am seeing something like this (cheap servers with unlimited bandwidth) for under 20 bucks in US, if I remember correctly.
I think OVH might have one of those at their Quebec location once a while as a special Kimsufi deal, but I am no sure if you ever want to look into BHS again...
Nah, not on OVH... on another datacenter in northern California that's running on Cogent, HE, Level3, Tinet, and Comcast
Do you dare use one as a seedbox in US?
None of which are in North America, which is most of what makes this offer out of the ordinary.
couple years back WII use to offer pentium 4/semprons servers for $15/mo in limited quantities, or they had deals where you buy a server and get a free sempron but yeah it's been a while since a promo like this is being offered..
Is that why you bought all the atoms?
Bit the bullet and bought one.
Say that 10 times fast.
@BlueVM did.
Newer hardware. The P4s are likely 10 years old! Atoms have newer hard drives, mobos etc. The hard drive failing is the biggest worry on an old system.
went for a impulse buy :P
I was thinking more over the core2duo or core2quad for an extra $5-$10 I think it's worth it.. but yeah the P4 are probably the lowest performer of the bunch..
@belinik me too. But not worried about it. Seems like a good company.
@earl @abdsussmad - I would think they would put newer drives in both, but that's just an assumption. For the price though, it's a great deal. US, 100mbps, 250gig. Even just for a test server the p4 would beat a lot of VPS any day.
What kind of HDDs (model numnbers) did you guys get? How much "power on hours"?
@rds100 - They haven't been provisioned yet.
I grabbed an Atom with 4GB of RAM for $34/mo.
I was thinking I should have paid for the 2nd 1TB.
QuickPacket was back in stock. I picked up 2 L5420s. I got one with Linux for $55/mo and upgraded to Gigabit port and the other one $69/mo upgraded to Gigabit port plus Windows Server 2008 since I was finding Windows VPS offers in the $40/mo range for what I needed why not go dedicated
Isn't the C2Quad/4GB/500GB $30? Then upgrade the HDD to 1TB and totals $35.
Device Model: TOSHIBA DT01ACA100
New drive it would seem, ordered the 1TB upgrade.
[root@localhost /]# wget freevps.us/downloads/bench.sh -O - -o /dev/null|bash
CPU model : Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q9550 @ 2.83GHz
Number of cores : 4
CPU frequency : 2003.000 MHz
Total amount of ram : 3796 MB
Total amount of swap : 3935 MB
System uptime : 1:22,
Download speed from CacheFly: 59.1MB/s
Download speed from Coloat, Atlanta GA: 41.1MB/s
Download speed from Softlayer, Dallas, TX: 95.0MB/s
Download speed from Linode, Tokyo, JP: 3.99MB/s
Download speed from i3d.net, NL: 5.43MB/s
Download speed from Leaseweb, Haarlem, NL: 16.8MB/s
Download speed from Softlayer, Singapore: 7.70MB/s
Download speed from Softlayer, Seattle, WA: 38.6MB/s
Download speed from Softlayer, San Jose, CA: 39.2MB/s
Download speed from Softlayer, Washington, DC: 52.5MB/s
I/O speed : 110 MB/s
Not bad for a "100 Megabit Unmetered Port".
Only US location?
What's the point of running P4s in servers nowadays? Surely you could quickly save money in the short run and have better performance by running something more efficient?
Why atom for for 19? While we can have core2quad for 30. Can anyone explain. Double processors in just 1.5 price.
@rrr because for some applications an Atom is more than enough, and it's also "greener". Besides it's also going to be several years newer than the P4.
@Kris looks like a brand new HDD, very good.
I am getting more than 100 mbps
@rds100 I am talking about Atom and Core2Quad. Why buy Atom if you can get C2D for 1.5 price???