What do you use your lowend box for?

texteditor

VPN, bittorrent clients holding mirrors of my uploads to different trackers (for availability and backup reasons), small static-ish web projects, IRC stuff, and small0scale file hosting for sharing with friends

Most of the transcoding, high IO (network or disk), and large storage styff has to be on dedicateds

huntercop

@Pwner said:

@cheapwebdev said:
How does using a VPS enable YouTube to load faster?

How does necroposting a thread from three years ago accomplish anything?

How does it not? It got you to "react" didn't it?

huntercop

@rm_ said:

cheapwebdev said: How does using a VPS enable YouTube to load faster?

Cuz your own ISP may have a screwed up Google Cache setup, or you could get directed to a wrong cache instance (e.g. to which the peering connections are overloaded). If at the same time you have no issues with download speeds from your VPS, you can benefit from a fast and robust Google Cache instance running in a proper DC with multi-100Gbit peerings somewhere in Europe (as in my case), instead of some small one operated as a side job by local village ISP near you.

Pwner said: How does necroposting a thread from three years ago accomplish anything?

By doing that and then simply getting the answer to your question, like he just did?

Thank you!