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This is good idea. Spammers will take those machines to work with their lists
With E5 and 128GB RAM they can really do a good work.
I like this idea.
If used for the purpose of heating, then it would cost no more than using any other electric heater. So the result would be a net gain.
I dont see anything stopping or deterring spammers from using normal servers either. So I dont see this as somthing that would attract abuse any more than regularly priced servers.
You could try emailing some big video based sites. They probably always need encode compute capacity.
I wouldn't hand out public IPs like candy.
Offer to setup private networking or something on a proxmox cluster or somesuch.
Or you can pitch to some of the new altcoin forums that still give OK return for CPU miners in the short term.
Perfect for summerhosts, but you are late
isn't this type of thing already widely available? hiring servers by the hour etc?...
guess it depends on the spec vs price
i will love to take one E3v5 servers with 64GB RAM and 2x4TB HDDs $20/month for 2 or 3 month .. i will just use that for my vmware labs ... if you really offering this please tell me ...
High performance ASICs can use kilowatts of power. Assuming your ASIC mines at ex. 1th/second, and you have a few of them, it'll surely use more power than a conventional heater :P
EDIT: Central heating@home uses natural gas for me, just the fan that requires power
It gets pretty cold in LT in the winter. Like I said, -30 is not uncommon.
In terma of wattage, I would mine as much as I need heat. 1KW does not seem all that much to heat an office when its seriously cold.
I've gone through our stock list and we won't be giving away such a spec at that price. We have some for around $20 - $30 but for the E3v5 models would be $30 - $40.
Reverse cycle electric provides greater than unity efficiency (it provides more heat indoors than it uses to do so) the only proviso being you have to keep it de-iced. perhaps you could use all the cooling fans to keep one ice free?
Don't see any harm in you trying, but personally, I usually only pay things either monthly or annually. Almost all my dedi needs fall appropriately into one of those two. I don't see myself going three months instead of one year if I really need one year; and I don't see myself going three months if I only need one month, or only trust the host with a month's worth of fees. I also don't see a massive discount between one month pricing and three-month pricing.
Sounds like a great idea - if you want more torrents than OVH
Fast track for instant termination?
Who mentioned paying for 3 months instead of monthly?
I don't see why you shouldn't try it, doesn't seem to cost a lot of money or time to implement. Hetzner also tested out an alternative renting scheme with their Robot service, it worked pretty fine for them as well.
How about short term VPS running on these short term servers?
Since you can squeeze a good number of VMs on the servers with large amounts of RAM, perhaps that would be more cost effective provided sufficient quantities of IPs.
How about:
1vCPU, 1GB RAM, 40GB HDD for US$1 /month + $1 for an IP address. Make sense if you have as many IPs as you have GBs.
How about that?
I can tell you now that you're going to spend more money on abuse and fraud prevention than your revenue with these.
Do tell
You'll have resellers in notorious areas of the world signing up just to blast spam at that dirt cheap price.
We already do free VPS and the abuse is managable. Im not too worried. If our free VPS is manageabl then I dont think paid VPS will be any worse.
They will be targeted mainly from spammers. Alternatively you can think about blocking some ports.
For our free VPS, we already block DNS and Mail ports. I don't see why a $1 VPS would be any different.
If you block those ports it would be much better, make sure to monitor them though, you'll most likey get two kind of customers:
The tester/developer - He will need it for few months just to run and test a specific software or whatever, it would be ideal for him like it happens with cloud istances on hourly basis.
The abuser - Few months or even less to run specific illegal tasks would be perfect for him.
Now a days maximum websites are offering dedicated server plans with minimum 1 month of subscription required