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Yes totally legit content, it is going to be 'white hat' the privacy stipulation is more of an ideological thing.
Like i said, i can recommend the mentioned ones.
I feel like I'm derailing the thread here... Having a Slow Servers specific discussion thread would be nice.
Ha, not a Sempron. Actually, I'm pretty particular on hardware. Must have ECC support. I need to have a spare ready to go. I've narrowed down, very specifically, to the Opteron 4162. I've tested a few configurations and this seems to be working out the best for my low power design.
It is true, though. There's lots of $0 host hardware that could work for people. I'm about an hour and 45 minutes from my datacenter. I live in a rural area and there's not a whole lot of options for me. That said, there's two other datacenters I can get to. One I never heard back from on pricing, and the other has a terrible reputation.
I like the datacenter I ended up at quite a bit (Neutron.) Tierpoint is a big company and they are pushing hard on AI-capable datacenters. Neutron is oldschool and locally owned.
From what I've seen on pricing, there's parts of the country with much better deals. Part of it, as well, wasn't being ready to commit to a full rack and a cetain power commit. With enough usage, bigger scale gets to be a lot more economical.
There is a nice datacenter in Bend, but it'd be more of a drive-and-rack situation, and then rely on remote hands. I don't know if I'll end up doing that or not. Still need to get my 1/3 rack to not be in the red every month. Thankfully, SporeStack does really well and funds this endeavor.
I agree about the bandwidth. I was offering 1TB per GB of memory, which is lines up closely with Vultr, DigitalOcean, and others. (Incognet is a lot higher than that.)
When I realized that my 100Mbit/sec connecton is capable of about 33TB a month and two full hosts would not be capable of pushing that, I decided to knock those numbers down. They are more like minimum guaranteed transfer at the moment. There are some other details, like my original IPv4 design used Wireguard and my router could only push like 80Mbit/sec with it. I'm looking into transit pricing now, though, and hopefully I can figure out what I can offer sustainably.
Premium pricing, yeah, it is. I did lower the prices after figuring out that I can reconfigure my hosts. Now the base price is $4/GB instead of $6/GB, and I arbitrarily lowered IPv4 from $1.50/$1. I've written on this some. I think now it's a lot more competitive, but there's no question that you can get the same server, or a better one, for the same money. I'm just not going to work for pennies or offer prices so low that I can't sustain them, and I have to fold because of it.
I think for OP and most others on here, Slow Servers is not the best fit. It's a weird host and it's based on my ideals. It's never going to be ultra-competitive. I'd be using Xen instead of OpenBSD if I wanted something that worked the "best" from a numbers perspective.