Burst.net: 1000Mhz 256MB 9GB SCSI 25GB
Nocster.net: 1500Mhz 512Mb 9GB SCSI 300GB

The dedicated servers provided by burst.net seems to be much more expensive than the ones offerred by Nocster. Taking the above $199 plans for example, there is a vast difference regarding the bandwidth offerred.

What is the major performance difference? Why is one much more expensive than the other?

Nocster will be utilizing primarily Cogent bandwidth soon.

Cogent bandwidth no good??

P/s: As you can see on the left, I am a newbie.

Oopss ... They just upgraded my status to Junior Guru Wannabe.

I dont think congent will be the primary , but it says on the site

IMPORTANT: Please note that the NOCSTER service plans only utilize the Sprint™ & Cogent™ backbones on BurstNET's™ current network. A 3rd backbone provider is scheduled to be added by the end of 2002.

you should search this forum for COGENT (lower case) keyword, there are a lot of posts about their bandwidth, pricing & performance

Cogent is not the worst, but they seem to get ripped for offering alot for a low price. From many friends opinions cogent are one of the best Tier2 providors. You pay more for the Tier1.