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I was wandering where I could find the cheapest dedicated server. I am on a budget.

[Chicken]

That must mean you drive a Yugo correct? It is the cheapest car. Point I always try to make is that signing up for something that is the cheapest, isn't usually the best.

The cheapest server I know is $99/mo. Support sucks, the company is run by incompetent high schoolers (who don't know how to run a company). Sounds good huh?

Post something meaningful, in order to get meaningful replies please. Minimum server specs, connection, price you are looking for.

These, "What are the best (or cheapest) hosts (or servers)" post drive nuts since there is so little info to go on.

Is $300/mo within your reach? How much $ for set up? Admin your own or managed? Connected to cable modem or a quadruple redundant high speed shared line?

[UNIXIELHOST]

Chicken, I second that!

With $99, it would get you 2 roundtrip airfare around the nation and would you think that is a conveince? I think not!

[spynet]

Originally posted by Webhosting Searcher:
I was wandering where I could find the cheapest dedicated server. I am on a budget.

Check www.dialtoneinternet.net they seem to have good prices, support and offer an interface!

www.rackspace.com
That's what I use

How about www.server4me.com ? Their basic dedicated server is only $50/month. They are based around a local ISP that has good reliability (A+ net), but $50?

Owen

[DanielP]

Uh hu.
Ok *tries to imagine what Carrier grade facility means*
is it a rented hotel room with rats chewing on my cables and the server directly plugged to the wall with no surge/ups backup @ all?

I'm not trying to be mean or anything, but there comes a limit to what things can be offered at. Sure, when they start selling rackmount cases for the same price as a desktop case then I'll drop my setup price to be more competive and so forth. Even a cheap server costs around 300-400 to build (similar to what their offering @ 49/month) so either their stupid and have a lot of money to burn or they are just plain crazy and like loosing money. I just get bad vibes about that place. There comes a point when the line between cheap and loosing money gets thin for some places but i'd have to say thats just plain loosing money or they lock you in a LONG contract.



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I found a $93 server from www.servint.net that I found through www.bighosts.com. They seem pretty good so far, very nice.

[Chicken]

If you add the bandwidth charges it tops out well over that. There are several companies offering the "server" for $50-$70/mo plus bandwidth.

A similar plan with dialtone would be about $125 less per month (due to bandwidth charges).

[webfors]

It all depends on the amount of bandwidth you plan on using. If you know for sure that your bandwidth needs will be minimal than by all means, go with a company that has the best price with limited bandwidth included. Now if you don't know what your current or future bandwidth needs will be then you are better to go with a company that offers reasonable bandwidth prices like Dialtoneinternet.com, tera-byte.com, DN, etc...


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[This message has been edited by tabernack (edited 07-09-2000).]

[comanche]

I agree, it depends on the amount of bandwidth you use because if you use a lot its better to go with a company that offers a lot of bandwidth. Another concern is IPs - some companies give you 1 IP and then you have to pay a fortune for the rest - We like our host http://www.atjeu.com because all the packages included unmetered ips and bandwidth. They arent really strict on either and we dont have pay extra - were usuing about 60gigs a month in traffic.

[scottlaw]

Companies such as Dialtone and Servint.net's (and I believe Rackspace.com) bandwidth charges look good at first glance but be aware that they use the 95% for measuring bandwidth. I posted an example from Dialtone's web site about how this can really kill you in another post... You might want to look at that before you decide to go with a company that offers 95% measuring.

Scott

[Chicken]

I have a feeling this is about as thick as one could get, *but* in the interest of learning, what exactly is the 95% percent deal? I don't quite get it. Could someone give a condensed version of what this means?

[MikeA]

Rackspace.com doesn't do whatever that 95% thing is. I used to be with them and 50GB of bandwidth is 50GB.


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[webfors]

Hi Chicken,

Measuring bandwidth using the 95th percentile rule means that you are not charged for the 5% highest transfer speeds from that month. So what a company does is they take a reading of the transfer rates from your server every given interval (every company uses different intervals - 5,10,...minutes) and make a graph using this information. So what they do is they chop off the highest 5% on the graph, run a line across the 95% line and use that to decide how much bandwidth you used. The 95th percentile rule is almost always higher than an overall average.

The majority of companies use the 95th percentile rule. I haven't found it to be unfair. The advantage of this method is if your server is DOS attacked, or is misconfigured, and peaks at 800k/second for 20 - 30 hours then those hours will be disregarded at the end of the month. In this situation the 95th percentile rule would most definitely be lower than the overall average.

With dialtone I am not on any fixed speed line, hence my server can peak as high as their network will allow for any period of time and as long as the peaks don't last longer than 36 hours, it will be disregarded at the end of the month.

Hope this is clear. I know it's a little hard to understand.




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