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It's really poor and it's only single core! They are making it ssd cached 500gb drive in the future, but still the processor is just not good enough.
They are offering 500GB hybrid SSD + on the current deal.
Isn't that fr only at the mo?
Yeah, I don't think they have other locations.
got a server. ordered 8 mins ago. got it now. only £10
so at least it might be useful as storage box, just weird they don't advertise it
got with 500GB HDD?
No way, of course with an 160G standard HDD.
But the 30EUR one were available for the foreigners 2 days ago(ca. 20 server), sold out yesterday.
No I mean I think it's for fr customers only isn't it?
500GB Hybrid is FR only, 160GB is international.
@Matt
Nope only 160GB
This made me laugh. Cpu is irrelevant in a router? Really? I think you need to go back to school. Idiot.
@luma for ISDN and GPRS yes
In his defense I have to say that cpu can be irrelevant in a router and it probably is for 100 mbps. My MIPS router with DD-WRT/Tomato/OpenWRT can do a lot on an 100 mbps line (OK, usually works at about 70% of that as it is best effort) including VPNs, wireless filtering and QoS. Mind you, I am not running 100k torrents in parallel, but it does cater for at least one Tor node non-stop and does encrypted iSCSI traffic over VPN in the same time as fast as 3-7 MB/s without overclocking (@300 Mhz).
Since I presume nobody will use their VIA CPU for higher routed/encrypted traffic it should suffice as a router with plenty to spare.
I like those via cpus, if you remember via was there before intel with their atoms, it just lacked the marketing muscle to gain a sufficient market share, I have a perfect i686 brick with VIA c7 and CF as disk, completely silent, it is not as efficient as latest atoms, nor as powerful, but it came at about 30 Eur second hand and i never needed more, at least so far.
If all features are hardware accelerated (Crypto, forwarding,..), yes
I am not sure if VIA Nano is good enough for a router, but it is capable of handling 14300 requests/second running haproxy.
"even with a 15EUR/month dedibox consisting on a single-core Via Nano
processor and which runs nf_conntrack, I can achieve 14300 req/s"
http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg07154.html
the VIA cpu is fine. runs plesk with medium load fine. just like the atom
To clarify, I meant a consumer router like Belkin, Linksys, Netgear, TP-Link, D-Link. Not an enterprise-grade one you'd fine in a datacenter.
ninja edit
has anyone found the Bandwidth info, fup etc yet?