[RndTbl] $29 dedicated server?

Paul Sierks psierks at sierkstech.net
Fri May 15 08:28:13 CDT 2015


Cheaper / crazier yet... Kimsufi.com & soyoustart.com

Regards,
Paul

Trevor Cordes <trevor at tecnopolis.ca> wrote:

>https://www.serverpronto.com/accounts/cart2.php?gid=1&pid=446
>
>How are these guys doing $29/mo "dedicated server"?  What's the catch?  
>They say it's a Xeon 3040 1.9GHz, so that's older/slower, but say I don't 
>need speed.  RAM 2G is anemic but doable if I don't need much RAM.  
>Doesn't say ECC or not, so that's one possible catch (but usually 
>Xeon==ECC).  No RAID, that sucks, maybe it can be added as a cheap 
>upgrade?  Network looks very good.
>
>Anyhow, that's 10-20X less than Rackspace wants for ded server.  How are 
>they doing this?  Is there some VM or blade-ish thing going on here?  Is 
>it really a 1U box (or possibly even smaller form) somewhere just for me?
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