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Can I run Windows with that CPU?
Really?
For this flash sale, they do say on the corresponding web page, "Tarif valable jusqu'à résiliation, sans limite d'engagement !", which basically means "Price valid until cancellation, without minimal commitment!".
I don't think that Windows is allowed.
Windows runs just fine.....no problem
Why not
Because KS does not allow Windows on their servers. From https://www.kimsufi.com/us/faq/
You will not be able to install Windows via Qemu. The processor does not have KVM support:
For all other processors you can easily install Windows from rescue: http://vova1234.com/blog/notes/426.html if there is no windows in templates.
Disks have changed many times, now they change 1 click through the API: https://abcvg.ovh/blog/dc_ovh/73.html
No. If you are not a noob and you know how to make backup, you can easily restore it on another server.
got one, nice offer
This note is present on every flash sale. And here is the reality:
https://www.lowendtalk.com/discussion/126143/ovh-increased-cost-for-antiddos-again
You do not need KVM to run Qemu. It runs fine on the Atom N2800 without KVM, in software mode. But yeah, very slow. I did not try to install Windows that way (I don't need to), but that's even how their own "vKVM" ("virtual KVM switch") rescue system worked back in 2013 or so. It was booting your actual OS on HDD via Qemu and giving you VNC access to it -- yes, even on the N2800!
Okay, but that was a bit different in the sense that it was an across-the-board price increase for anti-DDoS protection. So, yes, it was a price increase, but it was a price increase across the board for anti-DDoS protection. It wasn't a price increase that applied to the flash sale product alone to cancel the original discount.
I should have elaborated, but I meant that it was against KS rules, as @saibal made clear.
Naturally, it's another question if one wants to bypass the rules.
Sure it's not up to the non-discounted price, but still. Economics of the deal changes a bit, and to make it worse there's the setup fee, which you thought you'd justify in so and so years or months, and that's now out of the window. Who knows maybe next time they will add not 1, but 2 or 3 EUR. And that it's "across the board" does not make it automatically okay. Not to mention that since then other products had their prices lowered (e.g. the VPS-SSD is back to the pre-increase prices), but of course on the existing services the higher price stays.
I see your general point. I can't say to what extent the across-the-board price increase for anti-DDoS protection was justified. It may have partly been a way to compensate for global losses. Hard to say.
My direct concern was whether they had cancelled the discounted price for the flash sale product, but apparently they didn't, so minimally this is good.
Anyway, I'm still on the fence about the KS-3.
If kimsufi says, you got only a /128 its fake news.
if kimsufi says you cannot install windows, its fake news.
People tell a lot of shit daily, do not belive in what they tell you.
I'm surprised that most models are STILL available! Did they build a huge new kimsufi DC with 100.000 servers or something? Cause usually all cheap offers on OVH/SyS/Kimsufi sell out within 2 minutes (e.g. the SyS ARM storage servers). And you're even allowed to order more than 1!
If you mean this particular offer, it's just a bit mediocre, only 2 EUR off the list price (-25%). And it was pretty much always available at its normal price of 7.99. People who needed one already got theirs, and not many of them will want to reorder and migrate, because of the hassle and the setup fee. Speaking of which, I'd probably get one to check it out and maybe use for a few months, but the setup fee costing almost 2 months of use kills that idea completely.
I've always thought that KS-1 and KS-2 were the products that were hard to get. Less so for the other (higher) products.
Please remember we dropped price on all kimsufi servers for 4 months. Prices are already really cheap, so 25% on it is in fact quite attractive..
I would hardly consider 50% off a barrel of shit "attractive". I mean, seriously, I've owned pocket calculators with more features and horsepower than these N2800. With the SyS ARM NAS, a bit underpowered but with over 2.5times the bandwidfth, you are your own competitor...
* if you get just the right kernel and the password for it from a guy in dark alleys of IRC.
Seriously though, the N2800 CPU is at least 2x faster than the SYS ARM (probably much more), you can run actual things on it, such as light websites and whatnot. But of course people at large don't know this, so it might not be helping its popularity much.
Twas posted in 'offers' after all. Though it is breaking the offer rules with the imposed setup fee, welcome to the wild west
These servers are well suited for VPN, backup, for VMmanager panels, crypto masternodes. Today I am doing all day shifting from other atoms to these.
These are free remnants of servers from different networks.
Today dropped out RBX5: 178.32.x.x, 5.135.x.x., 176.31.x.x.
I have both (dropped the N2800 after years). The difference is not dramatic cpu-wise, and you have to throw the €/TB and setup fee and €/Mbps in the equation:
http://browser.geekbench.com/geekbench2/compare/2663620/2663621
As for the shadowy kernel, if the OVH staff was not a bland group of clueless chimps, it would have been fixed months ago; but hey, they already take 4 weeks to answer a support ticket, can't ask them too much at a time. Too busy attending great Social Events 2.0 and other grand ceremonies to please big accounts.
Please allow gigabit port connection on these
Oh! Right! This is something that I have overseen. Postings in "Offers" are in sink mode by default, aren't they?
Yep, that's correct.
So much for conspiration theories! ;-)