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Why Don’t People Talk About FDCServers More?
I’ve been with FDCServers for about 6–7 years now, and honestly, I still wonder why they don’t get as much attention as some of the “fancy” providers out there. Maybe people just overlook them because the pricing seems too good to be true. But for me, they’ve been one of the most reliable choices I’ve used.
Right now I run a 100Gbps box from them, and it costs under $1,000 a month. That alone surprises a lot of people. What’s even crazier is that during peak hours, I can usually push somewhere around 50–70Gbps. I don’t know many companies that would even consider offering something like that at this kind of price.
I also have a 10Gbps server in Singapore, around $300/month, and that thing gives a full 10Gbps all day long. No “burst only,” no random throttling. Just steady bandwidth, which is exactly what I needed.
Support has been solid for me too. Most of my tickets get answered in about 10–15 minutes. Hardware replacements obviously take longer, maybe up to a day if the engineer is busy, but that’s normal for dedicated hardware anywhere. Once I ordered 2TB drives—they didn’t have them in stock, so they just put in 4TB drives instead. That kind of thing doesn’t happen often with hosting companies.
After all this, I still barely see people talking about them. I’m not sure if it’s because their website looks old, or because people assume “cheap = bad,” but my experience has been the opposite. For anyone who needs huge bandwidth without paying ridiculous prices, FDCServers has been one of the best decisions I’ve made.
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Going to their website, selecting Warsaw DC:
Minimum price is $292.
LET max dedi price if a provider is posting is 200$ per month.
Majority of LowEnd are seeking deals at the max 50-80$ per month range.
So we don't talk about them due to us not being within their market.
We also like to idle, and idling for 292$ per month is not something that majority want to do.
FDC is highendtalk
Their base prices are probably higher than most users here want to pay, but their bandwidth pricing is really good value, and their 100 Gbps servers are quite affordable. I use them in a couple of regions.
I definitely consider them value-oriented, rather than high end though, because:
1) Support is so and so, especially the 1st level seem quite low skilled or constrained to following a script. E.g. at some point, after a delay of a few days, they said they couldn't install Debian to deliver my server, and asked to replace it with Ubuntu. After they delivered it with Ubuntu, the Debian netinst worked just fine over IPMI for me, so it was definitely an issue on their side.
Another time they immediately asked for (root!) SSH access to my server to diagnose packet loss upstream of my server, when I had already provided them the relevant MTR reports. In a similar situation, almost every other provider first attempted to reproduce the issue from other devices on the network, and didn't ask for access to my production machine.
2) By default, their IPMI access is wide open to the Internet. You can ask for it to be firewalled off, but if the server ever ran a vulnerable version, chances are that it was compromised before you ever got the server.
3) They only have a couple of transit providers in most locations, and there've been times when one of them was out for an extended time (days), so for a while you were effectively single homed. Latency / speeds seem pretty solid for US, Europe and Brazil though.
I'm not sure about Asia. If I recall correctly, for a while I don't think they were in any IXs in Singapore, which was pretty bad for connectivity to South-East Asia. They're in BBIX SG now, but it looks like everyone's sharing just 100G to the exchange.
4) They don't offer any kind of DDoS protection
I'd consider DataPacket to be highend as they're better on all these points, but they're definitely more expensive (especially for bandwidth)
Edit: I never tried a VPS from them, but this community might be more interested in that product range. Supposedly true unmetered 1 Gbps with no FUP on the $25 2x vcore, 4 GB RAM, 100 GB NVMe VPS.
They used to have an extremely bad network, being singlehomed Cogent. Now it's improved since they added multiple T1's but the prices are considered high end here even if their 100 Gbps bandwidth is cheap.
Also, since they're based in the USA, they're not DMCA ignored at all.