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never mind was just hyperv win 2008.
By doubt, just do it
I've renewed both my N2800 in RBX and D425 in BHS until the start of September. Though last night I was giving this a think and may let both of them expire after that. I maintain the D425 just to hold a copy of all the data on the N2800. They cost around $8 each. For $7 I can get 500GB of storage (with RAID) at VPSDime, for $8 I can get 320GB (again, RAID) at Vultr or billed hourly. So to me these boxes really don't make economical sense, I bought them on a whim. That and CPU performance being poor with these boxes, the only attraction I can see is the unmetered 100Mb/s port. I've used 45TB of the past 2 months, 32TB of that is torrenting.
£35/year is a decent deal, I feel like £48/year is still too much for these boxes.
Yeah, a whopping 4 GBP a month and all you get is 20-30 TB of transfer a month, a 500 GB hard disk, 2GB of RAM and a dual-core CPU that's easily enough for most 'personal' uses. What a ripoff really.
If you need 20-30TB of transfer then great, but otherwise other solutions are often more economical.
Well this server can easily replace any of my other VPSes. Or in fact all of them -- and that's economical. Whereas if I'd choose the 500 GB storage VPS that you mentioned, I don't think one can run non-storage related tasks on it. Vultr 320 GB is still nowhere the same value as Kimsufi for around the same price or even a bit more expensive. "Hourly billing" is a bizarre trait to look for in a storage VPS, it's not like you'll be creating and destroying it all the time (constantly re-uploading your data).
Could you please be more specific about 'economical'?
I was talking about my own usage case. For me I maintain two Kimsufis to replicate data because of the lack of RAID, so that's £10. Fot £10 I can easily get 500GB of RAID storage elsewhere and often the CPU is better too.
Don't confuse RAID with backups. With this server-to-server copying you have a backup. With a single RAID-based VPS you have RAID, but no backups. And it is not unheard of those "cloud" companies to lose or screw up customer's data. Not to mention you can get hacked via some 0-day exploit and have everything deleted. So you still need to keep a full copy of content from that "super reliable RAID" elsewhere (if you care about that data, anyhow).
Yes I know, I keep a copy of all of my data on an external drive which remains unattached for most of the time at my house. I keep a second copy because uploading content from my home connection would take hours.
With Kimsufi it's a case of when the drive and my data is going to vanish, compared with if my data is going to vanish when a drive in a RAID config fails.
And the only one I know that can manage cheap storage is the new one, 1tb/$4, but no raid
got one in france location just now. will check what CPU spec it is
me too, but "We check your payment manually" again, it sucks ...
Did you ended up getting a N2800 in BHS? I just got mine on Friday.
you got it in BHS?
damn, the staff said that no stock in BHS, so they cancelled our orders
If ordering a server in BHS, and I am from Canada, do I need to pay VAT? it seems like it wants to charge that at the last step of the order.
They sent me the same email asking me if I want one in France, I told them I just need a N2800, anywhere is fine and then I didn't hear from them for about a week so on Friday I was so surprised when I saw the server was delivered and in BHS.
No.
Strange, how would we avoid paying that, it wants to charge me
send mail to ask for VAT removal. maybe need to validate your address
it removed for me automatically once I hit the Paypal page.
you are lucky than me
tried Visa and Paypal but no luck, they both want to charge VAT... does it make a difference which site is used for ordering?
it doesnt matter they will charge you VAT you pay for it and follow instructions on their forums to submit your ids to verify and in 2 to 3 weeks they will remove VAT. IF you are lucky you will encounter the scenario like zhuanyi where it will automatically remove VAT if not you will have to send in docs to request VAT be removed.
Hmmm, I didn't know that it creates an order even without paying (I guess pending order), if there are a few I can disregard the extra ones? thanks
In my view, the difference in the user experience between KS-2 and KS-3 is worth the extra 5 euros a month.
Damn I want one...
KS-3 is a lot faster as you can see from the Passmark test. With KS-3 you could probably run Windows without any issues or hick-ups.
And as i said this morning. I got delivered a n2800 500gb ks-1