[RndTbl] $29 dedicated server?

[Gerald Brandt]

I've got a colo server at Joe's DataCenter that I'm paying $50 USD for a 
month.  Soyoustart beats that.  I was thinking of sending a backup 
server to Joe's... I'm reconsidering.

Gerald

On 2015-05-15 8:28 AM, Paul Sierks wrote:
> 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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