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I was planning on using it for backups and things of that nature. I'm getting 10.72Mbps from home.
And what do you get from your home to the atom server eg ftp/http get? put?
How fast is your home DSL/broadband service? Can you saturate your local connection?
@skybucks10 - backupsy would be cheaper I believe.
I have no idea about the first 3, but I have Comcast which maxes at about 40ish Down and about 10 Up
Only issue I had with them was that I was restricted to only backups and nothing else.
The best way to benchmark it, is to actually shift some files from your home (or whatever the source is) to the server - see what the real performance looks like.
Fiber has a refractive index of about 1.5 so light travels through fiber at about 2/3 the speed of light, or about 200,000 metres/millisecond, so it would be 40ms from Seattle to Frankfurt "assuming that its as the crow flies and 100% optical all the way."
This was supposed to be a simplistic version, of course there are a pile of other characteristics - fibre grade, wavelength, Raman/No Raman, etc.
If you need a really cheap dedicated server, I recommend waiting until tomorrow, "Cyber Monday", or ask around datacenters if they have older hardware lying around and they might be able to rent it for you at a really cheap rate.
@Jeffrey the problem with old equipment - it costs more to power than modern kit. Often the equipment is such a low cost compared to the cost of the power/cooling.
We have about 300-400 Pentium 4's sitting in a storage room in Atlanta and I think about 150 Opteron 270's - these machines were retired years ago, we could fire them up and rent them out for pennies but the electricity/cooling bumps the price through the roof.
Like it
@MarkTurner I can imagine that, I had an Intel Celeron dedicated server in Tampa, FL for only $15/Month. I can't see how that DC made a profit on powering that Celeron.
@Jeffrey - depends on brand, some Celerons are cheap to power. I know these HP units (DL140, DL145) slurp up the power.
That's what i'm planning on doing
You got some insight into some sales? You know I have a problem... @earl knows.
@jarland What are you on about?
Sounded like you knew something
@jarland Sorry, but I am really confused at what you are trying to imply here.
He is asking you if you know of any good deals on dedicated servers..
lol. I thought he was implying his employer is going to have a dedicated server blowout like the one in May maybe, but he won't be able to grab one because he's an employee. Something along that line.
Really? Hmm.. no, I took it that Jarland thought Jeffery knew of an up coming deal for Cyber Monday..
Actually you are just as bad as Jarland with your server addiction! lol. you have quite the collection I think.
Well English is not my first language.
Nope, more like buy and dump rather than collections. I can't keep servers for long, unless for some good ones.
Same here.. so many deals lately it's kinda hard to keep anything longer than a month or two.
Couldn't agree more...
I was always puzzled by this as well as providers claiming a high churn rate.
Since I work for prometeus, i see at least half of the people keeping deals with yearly payment, not to mention others, except, maybe, the chinese, or there were a lot of accounts from the same few people in the time when @prometeus gave great deals to new customers until we learned otherwise.
For others, while many keep changing plans and transfer credits from one to the other, they usually don't leave, even buy more, i wont hide it that when we wanted to get to the cloud business, we had this motivation, let people manage own instances so we can cut the work with upgrades/downgrades, weird ISOs and templates all the time...
I consider a good retain rate 1/2 of the people that get to try the service remain customers for year(s), I think the rate is perhaps 2/3 or more, when you are not the cheapest in many areas in this market, this is very good IMO.
no wormholes, no tricks. 100% true faster than light information transmission using quantum entanglement of atoms.
@Maonique I said except for some good ones.
Additionally, I don't switch VPS providers as frequently as I do dedicated server providers.
Sounds scientific, let's go with it!
@jarland @earl Nope, I am not employed nor affiliated with any VPS/Dedicated Server company.
haha what the heck is that download file. lame as fuck! it downloaded in about 4 seconds on my 8mbps internet line.
tldr; test file is fake