Re: [Xpilot-hacks] RE: servers

[Darel C. <da...@gm...>]

Hi,

 Yeah I have done a very quick search for hiring a dedicated swedish server=
.
The prices for decent transfer amounts are really very high.
We found some really nice sites in the UK (with 20-30ms pings for both .de
and .se) but again the prices were astronomical.

 There are a few requirements

1) low server load (lots of swapping on the server leads to jumpy servers)
2) decent ping times for all. (over 40-50ms is unacceptable).
3) udp not firewalled.
4) root access (ssh).
5) no limits on what types of server one can run.

 The other option is to run a server full time at home.. which I should be
able to do eventually once I get the real big bandwidth (100mbit) so i can
download things whilst running a server with a clear conscience. Sharing
1mbit upling isnt really an option for my home connection but i will have
fibreoptic or docsis 3 coming online eventually in which case I can run
dedicated at home 24 hours on a spare computer.

 So far the german dedicated server offers have seemed the best - from a
price performance point of view, however we don't know about their server
loads or other restrictions.

 The absolute best swedish server i have been able to find is fsdata:

 http://www.fsdata.se/server/egenserver.php

 I get 13ms to that but it costs 345 Skr for a dedicated server for 128kbit
320 per month (shared 10mbit). Unacceptable I say.

 are there any better offers than the german ones in finland? norway? uk?
france?

 we are looking at the ds100 on http://www.hetzner.de/preismatrix_dedi.html

/Darel





On 12/30/05, xph...@sp... <
xph...@sp...> wrote:
>
>
>
> > Anyway, if it must be a German server, I guess this hetzner is about as
>
> It is not a "must" - I've (naturally) not been able to do as extensive
> research on swedish servers as on german ones - even using english search
> terms, google-results for me seemed to be mostly for german offers
> (perhaps google using my .de address to find the 'more important' hits?!)
> and I cannot read swedish-only sites. The quick search Darel did didnt
> turn up any offer that would come even close to the price/value
> combinations that I dug up.
>
> What we're looking for are dedicated servers (most likely with
> root-access) for under 20 or perhaps 25 euros/month and of course a "low
> ping all over europe".
>
> The Hetzner offer was labelled with "christmas special", so it might be a
> good idea to start renting a server pretty soon.... (or it might not -
> often limiting the time for an offer has been used as an advertising
> trick, e.g. for DSL-type access to the internet in germany... where
> yet another limited time was granted again and again)
>
>
> Karsten
>
>
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/Darel