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Super Cheap Virtual Private Servers - the Wild West of Hosting

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Re: Super Cheap Virtual Private Servers - the Wild West of Hosting

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Post by webfuel »

josephb wrote: post #2

From the article: > Linode http://linode.com - expensive, no IPV6, really fast network @ 11.9 Mbps Actually Linode have IPv6 support in 5 of their 6 locations :-)

I just did the speed test on linode (Atlanta) and got 52.1 MBps. I can't say enough good things about their service.

http://imgur.com/BLmCH

Re: Super Cheap Virtual Private Servers - the Wild West of Hosting

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Post by angerman »

LoneWolf wrote: post #4

Anyone here who knows/has experience with Hetzner? http://www.hetzner.de/en

If you prefer to have your VPS shielded behind a heavy firewall, why not. But in case you ever intend to do outgoing calls from the server on ports other then the default (80, 443, ...), prepare yourself to do some wrestling with the support and have the IPs of the hosts you want to connect ready. And it /will/ take some time. That's just one of the issues I had to repeatedly deal with. (Consuming some foreign service).

Re: Super Cheap Virtual Private Servers - the Wild West of Hosting

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Post by darklajid »

So I thought I give empire-hosting a try to play with a cheap box.

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Ah well.. Let's look at the other recommendations of that list, I guess.

Re: Super Cheap Virtual Private Servers - the Wild West of Hosting

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Post by SergeyHack »

angerman wrote: post #7
LoneWolf wrote: post #4

Anyone here who knows/has experience with Hetzner? http://www.hetzner.de/en

If you prefer to have your VPS shielded behind a heavy firewall, why not. But in case you ever intend to do outgoing calls from the server on ports other then the default (80, 443, ...), prepare yourself to do some wrestling with the support and have the IPs of the hosts you want to connect ready. And it /will/ take some time. That's just one of the issues I had to repeatedly deal with. (Consuming some foreign servic…

Probably that's why I encountered the limit of about 100 reqs per second when was stress testing my hetzner VPS from the outside.
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