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Looking for a i7/E3 game server East Coast USA (or any low latency to Europe)
Looking for something around $50 located in East Coast US or Canada (i.e. a stable ping to both the US and Europe). Hoping for at least 8 GB RAM and a stable (DDoS protected if possible) network.
Storage doesn't matter too much. SSDs preferred and size isn't too much of a hassle.
We were with ReliableServers (multiple dedis) and they had some Choopa routing issues which caused lag spikes and TCP time outs. SoYouStart then screwed us over with faulty motherboards (but, to be fair, the OVH network was pretty solid).
Would love to hear some budget alternatives?
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I have a server with VortexNode that I host some game servers on that have treated me pretty well. They're based in Buffalo, NY, so latency to US and western Europe is good. I think they have some DDoS protection, albeit not capable of protecting against high volume attacks, but your safety net would be the additional 4 IPs you'll get.
Check out their current deals over at their superdeals page :
https://www.vortexnode.com/clients/cart.php?gid=10
Mentioning their friendly LET rep - @VortexMagnus
Let me know if you'd like me to run any ping or speed tests from the box.
Sweet! Thanks, these look pretty ideal actually.
Can you throw your box into http://www.locaping.com and let me know what the average is like to UK, US and France?
@TimTimTim, sure thing.
Here you go:
US (Texas) - 51ms.
UK (London) - 89ms.
France (Paris) - 97ms
Check out https://www.vortexnode.com/clients/cart.php?gid=10 for some of our clearance deals in Buffalo
Thanks for the mention @MasonR
How much more to upgrade the 1240 to an SSD - or is it unchangeable?
Still open to other suggestions if anyone has any. Will buy something tomorrow.
I've been with ExtraVM for several months, the service has been solid so far. @MikeA
He's looking for dedicated, not VPS most likely. But since he brought up SoYouStart, he should have just dealt with the faulty hardware and let them replace it. They didn't "screw him" and it's his best choice for a fast CPU like the i7's.
I'm not sure how you can comment on the situation without any information regarding it? They didn't screw me out of money - it was the time spent on the phone to the technicians. They gave me almost 2 months compensation for their mistake. It was a failure on their side to diagnose the hardware issues, and fix them, over a long period of time.
You said they screwed you over faulty hardware, since you didn't explain that I assumed you had a motherboard failure (like you said) and that was it, because lots of people complain about hardware replacements even though it's not something one can avoid
Edit: Free 2 months is great.
Do you need the whole node or just some high thread throughput? Our slices are awesome and are on 3.5Ghz CPU's. Price is $30.00/month + $3.00/month for IP's.
https://buyvm.net/kvm-dedicated-server-slices
Francisco
Sweet! That also looks pretty promising actually. I'm flexible actually so it's not exclusively dedis.
I wouldn't touch VNs NY location as far as i could throw it. Network has very poor throughput, especially towards the EU
For around $50 and 8GB RAM I would try a VDS with nfoservers (NY). I can't remember what CPUs they use but you do get dedicated cores. Admittedly I did have some significant issues with nfoservers (Internap not having enough network capacity in NY location), but that was a couple years and should be long resolved by now. An 8 Core, 8GB VDS is $64 although you can bring the price down by picking a 4 or 6 core and adding additional RAM to it. SSD space is an additional cost to base prices too but won't add much cost if you only need a little bit of SSD storage. New customers get a 2 day trial for first VDS.
I have tested many providers in north east USA as I require the best latencies for my game servers to USA and EU players and unfortunately the best tend to not have DDOS protection (luckily haven't had any need for it in my older, smaller game communities) and can be very expensive. My preferred hosts for best latency and reliability in north east USA are Steadfast (NJ), CenturyLink Cloud, and AWS in that order, all of which are way above $50 per month for 8GB RAM.
OVH network is pretty bad for game servers in my experience. Probably fine for those near the server but bad latencies compared to many other hosts.
I have got a VN dedi that performs better than most dedis that I have tried in NY.
I am looking for the same thing on the west coast preferable LA.
@VortexMagnus do you have any of your VortexNode SuperDeals for the west?
If Magnus can't, @key900 might be able to do something for you.
Let me know if you want to test it out
Francisco
@key900 let me know if you do.
Get in touch via the website, I am sure that we can do something for you.
@VortexMagnus I submitted a ticket
I PM you.
Thanks
Have you ever considered to take a server in europe ?
Here is our looking glass server if you want to run some tests:
http://lg.ikoula.com/
I can't ever find European hosts that can get "low" latency to West-US. That's why I like East-US as it's more central.
You'll want to be the East Coast to get equal latency to both regions.
150-160 is about is good as it can get to west coast from Europe (lowest latencies from hosts in London)
@TimTimTim have you ran tests on our looking glass ? how is it ? (i am interested in the results).