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Anything in the west coast? :P
They accept only credit card and money tranfer from German bank account but not PayPal.
No, they accept it from any bank as long as it is in Euro.
In fact, like anyone else in Germany, they can't even see if it originated from a non-german bank.
I guess they've changed business or something - given their loremesque blog, Ig uess so.
valuehost.us used to offer cheap dedicated servers.
Yes I saw that site, but seems like a template or sth.
In the tweet widget they talk about a new website... dunno
I think that depends on the bank you have your bank-account with and the software you use. For example, I'm with the local Sparkasse (ie. a state-owned savings bank) and use a specific banking software, ie. WISO Mein Geld. I can see the data of the sender (account-# and bank code).
Kimsufi FR (20$):
http://browse.geekbench.ca/geekbench2/602412
dd if=/dev/zero of=test bs=8k count=160k conv=fdatasync
163840+0 records in
163840+0 records out
1342177280 bytes (1.3 GB) copied, 7.95424 s, 169 MB/s
Kimsufi CA (should be 20$, we still have no price until August):
http://browse.geekbench.ca/geekbench2/602411
dd if=/dev/zero of=test bs=8k count=160k conv=fdatasync
163840+0 records in
163840+0 records out
1342177280 bytes (1.3 GB) copied, 10.6171 s, 126 MB/s
Just curious, why LEB VPS providers here don't provide LE dedi?
Infrastructure mainly. When you are renting racks you want to make sure you get as much $/Value per 1u of space in that rack. low end dedicated servers don't generate much money per u.
When you own your own DC however you can sacrifice a bunch of racks/corners of the building to low end stuff.
Datacenters like OVH will also get huge discounts from Supermicro, HP, Dell or whoever they purchase from.. Other smaller companies could not do this.
When you own your own DC however you can sacrifice a bunch of racks/corners of the building to low end stuff.
Low-(end|cost) (colo|rental) isn't really a profitable market. A large part of our business structure is income/Amp, why would we waste the power on a colo when our regular business pays the bills much more efficiently?
Also, OVH will only buy a large amount of a few number of processors and equipment, so they get it cheap but don't offer a lot of choice, where as a company like soft layer purchases pretty much every processor available, so they don't get it as cheap since they don't buy them massively in bulk, so more expensive.
Why can't it be ATOM? http://digicube.fr has Dedi's CHEAPER than kimsufi
Do they provide support in English language?
@nabo Nah, but Google Translate works well.
I'm ordering a Dedi from them now.
Its really weird, pretty much all European providers offer their homepage in English as well as their home language, but French providers (but OVH) don't.
Cheaper only if you pay per year and also the ram and disk is way smaller. I will stick to OVH.
Maybe the reason: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toubon_Law
Honestly, I don't know about EN<->FR translations, but the result of EN<->DE translations back-and-forth is quite awful. It sometimes even generates the contrary of your sentence.
Haha! If you goto Disneyland Paris you wouldn't think you were in France, everything is in English.
I read the Wikipedia Entry and it looks like that law is a joke that only the French could ever pass, it seems they enforced it to try and stop English being used in France, also the fact that it fines companies for not producing software in French, despite the fact that programming languages are all in English.
Sorry, I just find that hilarious.
We have a similar thing here in Québec, it's the Bill 101. It's not a joke, it's a way to preserve our language. I don't think our law affect website or software (I think video games have to offer some sort of french manual but I'm not sure).
Digicube is down right now :') I don't know if the economy worth it.
@dwild I understand but language shouldn't be enforced by law.
It ruins trade and prevents from growing, OVH is extremely large but only because its bilingual
Even with a law it's hard to get a french service in some places... I agree with you that it's should not be enforced by law (like 99% of the thing that law cover) but history has proven that we need it.
@dwild last time I went Paris a few weeks ago, I had no language barrier although I did feel very selfish speaking no French what so ever nor attempting to try.
That law also affects computer software, now computer software has to be written in English.
Interesting...
Did they run away?
I just found cheap dedi from serverpronto
https://accounts.serverpronto.com/signup_outlet.php
It is only 512MB of RAM and 40GB of HDD.
Any comment about them?
@Subin Run away, far away.
Why?
Btw, these were the guys offering Athlon XP servers at 5 usd or sth? xD
Tons of horror stories about serverpronto.
Francisco
@Yomero Haven't heard of Server Pronto?
Do a little search on WHT :P
Wow, no comments, I read 3 minutes of bad stuff u_u