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Can somebody tell me why the EX 4S costs the same as EX 5 ? I feel like the 4S is actually superior, but I'm no expert.
The EX5 is the last one with the old-gen CPU and was kept because in the early days of the i7-2600 it was too expensive to offer high-ram servers like the 4S (which was introduced months later)
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That is true, but you have to keep in mind that you have to get the flexipack if you want to run more than 3 virtual machines with their own ip on it. And honestly - if my server had 64gb ram I would want to do that. "back in the days" I got my own subnet for free, now they are charging for it pretty heftily.
Welcome to the last days of ipv4.
Great hosters! - cheap prices for lots of power - everything "just works" (only contacted for questions) - quick, friendly & to the point support service - great uptime - they are eco - 14 days money back (for root servers) Drawbacks - bigger latency for US/Asia/... - you do your own backups - they bill only after the end of month. had problems when card expired
Did you measure the latency difference by any chance? I am really considering buying one host there, would love to get an idea on this.
CA: just under 200ms
Asia: even +300ms
didn't check Southern hemisphere
How would Google know my .com site is UK based?
How is this possible? With the HW and operational costs they have to be in deep minus.. Eg linode.com is considered good and they seem to be more expensive by an order of magnitude. Can somebody tell me what the catch is?
Get a discount for buying in bulk, calculate your operational cost and failure rate, and go for volume. They have years to make their money back on this..every month their investment in new hardware gets closer and closer to being profitable.
How is this possible? With the HW and operational costs they have to be in deep minus.. Eg linode.com is considered good and they seem to be more expensive by an order of magnitude. Can somebody tell me what the catch is?
Annual net profits:
2008: 4.077.791,31 €
2009: 4.448.824,49 €
2010: 8.925.128,81 €
2008: 9.030.980,10 €
2009: 13.479.804,59 €
2010: 22.404.933,40 €
- cheap energy + human resources by building custom colocation facilities in regions where cheap cooling+power is available
- cheap self-made servers, no 19" form factor for decicated servers (they have 19" racks for colocation customers)
- hardware has to be refinanced in a couple of months. That's why the charge 149€ setup upfront.
- growing out of cash flow
- CEO and founder still CEO. Sometimes still interacts with customers regarding new ideas in their forum (German only).
see http://www.hetzner.de/en/hosting/presse/center for corporate press releases.
I already lease a couple of servers with them, and I must say they are #1 in EU when it comes to... well, everything.
Question: If I host the domain for my UK business on one of these (and say it is a generic .com - not a .co.uk domain), will it influence my google.co.uk SERP ranking massively ? How would Google know my .com site is UK based?