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Budget-Dedicated Servers Discussion Thread
Ian_Dot_Tech
Member, Patron Provider
in General
Over my long period of being on this forum, I have seen many people ask for budget-dedicated servers.
In terms of this discussion, I will say the budget is $25 or less.
What matters most to you?
CPU cores/threads
CPU Benchmark
DDR2/3/4?
Drive space?
NVMe, SSD, Sata HDD?
network speed?
Additionally, what is your ideal dream spec budget-dedicated server and price?
(be realistic please)
Comments
cpu benchmark
network at least 250mbps for most uses
a good spec would be an e3 or an x5650 (or similar)
16gb ram
1tb hdd or 120gb ssd in raid1
250-500mbs port
bw at least 10tb
oneprovider has this spec (when it's in stock) for under 25, but obviously it might be a bit wishful
sys also has this for 24 euro if you use checkservers.ovh, with 3x2tb hdd
I've found memory to be the fastest limiter for budget servers for my personal toys. But that's usually because I'm stacking docker containers and running game servers, etc.
Skylake i5, 4 cores, hyperthreading disabled
16GB RAM
240GB SSD (single disk)
IPv4 NAT, IPv6 routed /64
200Mbps bandwidth, 20TB monthly transfer
Serial access included
$19/month
Just give me a god damn dedicated server (I'm serious, so, if you can, give me an offer) that isn't by a provider that wants ID verification, with the following specifications:
Monthly cost: under/equal to $27 USD
Edit: and yes, I am seriously considering coloing some old shitbox because no one seems to want to do this, or by the time I'm done reading their TOS, they're sold out (looking at you, OVH)
You ever think that a fake ID might be less trouble than you seem to be having?
No, not really, and that'd be illegal (good luck enforcing that, however...), though. Usually it's because their payment gateway detects that there's no 3D Secure (if I must, bank transfer can be done), hence wanting me to do ID verification, which is just stupid for such a cheap server. I could see why at $90/month, but $27/19!? No way.
The worst part is that I do in fact have plenty of servers at home, but the uplink is the only reason why I cannot properly use them for VPSes, even if I got my ISP to lease me some IPv4 addresses.
@Ian_Dot_Tech This being lowendtalk, $25/month is high end in my book!
See below for proper budget dedis..
Anything above 100Mb/s I consider a bonus, at these rates.
Three of these run Proxmox (one being a backup manager) and the cheapo happily runs basic Nextcloud services.
The Xeon has been a great help when compiling custom kernels, especially with up to 14 threads allocated to the task. Otherwise it just does menial VPS tasks or trials of control panels etc.
It's horses for courses though.
RPi?
https://www.lowendtalk.com/discussion/173541/rpi-colocation-rpi-hosting-provider-list-v-5-08-21
Update: I just got a dedi with hetzner. I'll pay with bank transfer, if I must.
120gb ssd
8gb ram
100mbit / 1gbps - 1tb bandwidth
a decent'ish cpu
Still haven't found anything (and probably will not for a long time) to make me give up my SoYouStart ARM server:
2x ARMv7
2GB RAM
4TB HDD
250 Mbps Unmetered
9 EUR/mo
Clearly, the easiest thing to do to avoid needing to provide ID to order servers is to live in US or Canada. I've never been asked for ID and I've been able to buy a VPS with a pihole VPN on by accident a couple of times. Location, location, location.
Yeah, I'm from a first world country, though, not from some third-world country. Anyway, at least I got my dedi.
Just tossing around some ideas in my head. For sure not RPi but we will see in the coming weeks. Testing hardware configurations this week.
The land of criminals!
One issue which people posted here is a lot of people are looking for 16GB but the ideas I have been thinking of consist of 8GB.
I know I said 120gb of storage, but 240gb ssds cost pretty much the same as 120 ones these days. So may as well go for that
8gb would be cool for me but some ppl obviously want more
Take a different approach from most: a hybrid dedi?
Ex.
Min. 2 core (preferably at least 4)
8GB RAM
64GB SSD (or larger - plenty for OS, /tmp, /var/cache etc.)
500GB SAS (or better)
250MB/s (or better)
1TB bandwidth (or better)
/29 IPv4, of course (perhaps a low cost option)
WHI / dedispec (which i used, they never asked for ID), maybe nocix?
Regarding small servers (and both colocation of tiny server, for example, i bought intel NUC and placed here for $10) you can go with @DataIdeas-Josh https://www.lowendtalk.com/discussion/173468/shhhhhhhhhh-dont-tell-the-boss-they-are-this-cheap-rpis-dedis/p1
Yeah, I will probably do this at the end of the year.
This. Fastest disks as possible.