And as I have said, that is where the perception problem comes from. Cheap-ass providers buy already cheap transit and oversell the hell out of it. Then they have congestion issues and people accessin

For us, HE.net is so cheap, it's just a place we can dump all our traffic if we happen to have a problem with our other routes. When you're 1/10 the price, you can over subscribe big time, and this re

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Note: SSD are orders of magnitude slower than even cheap RAM.

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TL;DR: **don't ** get a VPS with Cheap Windows VPS.

While they are pretty cheap, they are not that bad - out of my head I don't remember having any major issue with them on transit so far.

* Offered "too" cheap service;

That is not really helpful, the problems usually appear when a certain destination is in a network which has only Cogent as peering and they are cheap-ass overselling it like crazy. At peak time packe

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Single homed Cogent is a bad idea. If you have many upstreams, I think having Cogent in your mix is fine. My ISP used to be single homed to Cogent (I'm from Canada, so it might be different in the sta

From what I remember, Cogent was a horrible, cheap IP transit.

To date, our YT videos have been (1) tutorials, (2) recaps/news from LEB, (3) videos about cheap hosting (how to get free DirectAdmin, specific offers, etc.) There have been a few that were more &

unlike our tutorials and "here's a cheap VPS" videos, this one is not really of interest to the general public, so quite literally it was made for this community. So the hidden age

Theory. Very cheap also boils down to little to no reserves. Plus I doubt that even quality providers hold a 100% (or even just 50%) reserve for all their systems, disks, etc in stock just waiting for

Is HostSolutions a good provider? No, obviously not. But then, they are very cheap which obviously means that there are some compromises.

Lots of Webhosting are sharing resources that's why they can get such cheap prices for the specs. Oversharing sometimes. In this case, you don't even know if their Advertised 1 GB ram will be 1 GB bec

on the system it self. But RAM is by far not the cheapest or the closest item that is the cheapest. Even before the whole shortages.

Overselling RAM is pointless, it's incredibly cheap... Honestly, RAM is one of the LEAST expensive components of a server build out. I spec everything with 128GB RAM for all my newer nodes. Going to b

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