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Dedicated server near Seattle with unlimited traffic for $50/month.
Hey everyone I'm looking for a dedicated server near Seattle. I am currently using one of these from fiberstate from their recent sale. Combined with the double ram offer it turns into a 128gb ryzen with an unlimited 1g network.
AMD Ryzen 7 5700G @ 3.8 GHz (8 Cores/16 Threads)
64GB Memory RAM
1TB NVMe Samsung Evo Plus
1 IPv4 Address Included IPv4
/64 IPv6 Addresses available upon request
1 Gbps Unlimited Network Port
Included (reboot, install, console) VPN IPMI
Salt Lake City Data Center
$49.95/mo – INSTANT DEPLOY
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This works basically perfect for my needs. A full dedicated box, plenty of ram and behind a ddos network so I can use it as the gateway to my self hosted game server. The only downside is that it adds about 40 to 80 ms of lag from the distance between Seattle and Salt Lake City. Ideally I could get this exact box and network for this exact price but in Seattle.
I've got a vps from crunchbits and layer.ae in Spokane which adds 10 to 30 ms of traffic, so not terrible. I also have vps in seattle from aquatis.host and racknerd, those add like 5 to 15 ms. We don't get that much traffic, maybe 30 to 50 tb a month but it's more than the plan on any of my closer boxes so they can't be used for the gateway.
I don't need 128 gigs of ram or this exact ryzen as the machine is just going to be a blank ubuntu system with ufw and some iptable rules to forward my game server traffic. Just a decently fast dedicated cpu so I don't have to worry about sharing resources and an unlimited network that is ddos protected. From what I've seen of the current offers the fiberstate deal basically the best I can get for the $50/month pricepoint.
The most important part is it being closer to Seattle than Salt Lake City while being a dedicated machine with ddos protected and ideally unlimited traffic.
Is there anyone that can offer a similar ish setup for a similar ish price range, but closer to Seattle?
Thanks!
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I've scoured for this same kind of thing in Seattle and have come up empty handed. I'll be curious if anyone pipes in, but I think it's just too expensive of a market to do true budget servers like they can do in the secondary markets.
There's Reprise that plays in the budget space, and has some deals here, but it's much lower end hardware and also not unlimited B/W. It's also worth checking out OVH, which has a DC in Hillsboro, OR. Their SYS-GAME-1 series might be up your alley. It'll be nearly identical to Crunchbits in latency to Seattle, though.
Yeah, I havent seen alot for options in Seattle. So I've also been eyeing some of the colocation places and the cheap rack servers over at re-pc. Once you get to the $50 a month price point colo starts being a reasonable alternative.
You nailed it. Rackspace/power is a bit more expensive in Seattle so it's tougher versus being secondary markets. @fiberstate has excellent deals so I don't think you're going to get that quality of hardware and service at a better price, though I could have sworn their latency was only ~25-30ms to Seattle area? Similar for us, we should be ~9ms to anything in KOMO/Westin (tack on a few more ms for residential).
@YassGames if you can consider colocation, ping @AlexBarakov since I hear he has some well priced space in Tukwila
I've definitely looked around for some dedicated stuff for running minimal monitoring/off-site tasks and usually come up fairly empty. I've been tempted to utilize some of our rackspace in Seattle for some E3 dedis as well. Hmm.
I just checked. I'm getting 23-25ms from Fiber State Utah to my POP at the Westin in Seattle. 29ms to my service at Crunchbits. It can vary here and there, but that seems average to me.
If I connect via my local network to my game server it's like 1 ms. If connect via the gateway it's 60 to 80. So its a round trip time. I'm also using a home router with centurylink 1g fiber. like I said not bad but faster is always better if possible.
@PureVoltage got a Seattle location
check out Serverstadium, the dedicated server brand of wowrack; they have huge discount at some time
https://serverstadium.com/dedicated-server/
EoL2xE5-2650 – 128GB DDR3 – 1x2TB SATA 16C/32T 2.00Ghz 128GB DDR3 2TB SATA 5 usable IPs Unmetered 1gbps 65.00
Thanks! That's really close to what im looking for. Good price, unlimited bandwidth, in Seattle. But it doesn't look like they offer ddos protection which is a deal breaker.
Thanks sir!
@YassGames we have some deals we can do out there but slightly more than that budget.
We've got some Dual E5-2680v4 128gb ram 1TB nvme in Seattle we can do for $85
100TB on 10Gbps.
We might have some E3 1230v6 64gb ram 800gb SSD 100TB on 1G coming up shortly in the $65 range as well if interest.
How much ddos protection are you needing out there?
Probably not alot. About twice a year I ban someone from discord/gameserver and they ddos us for a bit. But that protection is more or less the reason I swapped from using noip publishing our routers ip to using a gateway machine instead. My home network is only 1g so more than that isnt needed. Unlimited is nice because I just don't have to think about it but 100tb is probably more than enough. I'd be happy with less ram too if it meant getting closer to $50.
So you must have DDoS protection then. Let us know if we can help, we can look into the Seattle path and see if it can be optimized further. On our typical BGP network it should be 20ms~ from SLC.
https://slc.lg.fiberstate.com/
Honestly I haven't gotten any complaints from my users after we switched over. I would ask people how's the lag and they responded with what lag. I think I'm the only one who has been affected by the added delay 🙃
But I'd be interested in any suggestions or tips to make it run better. Basically I've taken a blank ubuntu 24.04 install, ssh in. Disable ssh, install ufw, fail2ban and a few other things with restrictive rules only allowing access to my game server ports. Then after connecting to my tailscale vpn I use the tailscale ip of my home server to setup iptable masking rules for my game server.
That way I'm no longer doing noip for publishing my home router. Is there any sort of terminal command I could run to track down any issues? I'm not really a network engineer and chatgpt only gets you so far. My leading theory is that all my problems come from tailscale, but it's so useful I haven't given up on it yet.
Looks like the hop from slc to Seattle is taking a bit.
The rest after that resolves pretty fast.
It looks like OVH was mentioned already but... it is still a good option.
Given the low latency to Seattle.
Also check out this:
https://pdx1-hil.smokeping.ovh.net/smokeping?target=USA.AS49544-29
We can likely cut this down for you further by preferring the route via Lumen. Please raise a ticket if you haven't already.
Thanks, I'll go toss a ticket in.
I've also been looking at this machine here on ebay for if I was gona go with colocation in seattle. Or building myself something similar after getting spare parts from repc.
@AlexBarakov or anyone else have ddos protected unlimited bw colocation in Tukwila? I'm less than 5 miles from there so that would be awesome.
I'll probably bring in cheap E3v5/v6 this year in Seattle, as it seems like there's some demand for these - had quite a few requests over the past months. But ETA - probably in June/July.
I would check on @Purevoltage on that. They are near there too
https://purevoltage.com/datacenter/seattle-data-center/
Yeah right now they are setting up one of their
From the April deal (https://lowendtalk.com/discussion/204067/purevoltage-announcement-legacy-hardware-now-truly-legacy-giveaway-inside/p1) in seattle for me. Is a bit more than $50 a month and only comes with 200tb of ddos protected bw, but I'm still looking forward to trying it out.
I haven't looked at their colo prices yet probably worth asking about, thanks!
your aquatis vps is owned by purevoltage so it should be the same in terms of ms.