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Do you guys know of any other alternatives? I'm curious what's available these days. I'm asking about dedicated server options.
http://www.hetzner.de/ are pretty good price/performance wise .
On a related note, what's a good place to host a high-bandwidth server? We want to host a backend for gaming, with video interspersed.
$40 per month for an Atom based server (which is surprisingly capable). They have an advertised traffic quota, but in my experience they don't check how much traffic you've used. I used to run a file host on boxes from Interserver - I used to push about 60TB per month over 3 boxes.
I'm french and I've been using low-cost offers from OVH (Kimsufi) or Illiad (Online.net) since a couple of years. I just have ONE objection: If you plan to do something professional with them, just, don't. For them, every client is dispensable (even if you rent 200 servers or more). They won't hesitate a single second to delete your server if they have a small problem with you (for example, getting DDoS'd). OVH have…
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This for maintenance reporting. How do the hell they know if one of your HD has died ? It's not mandatory. And the ssh key added enforces the source IP address of requests.
One way would be to publish a HTTP/JSON API for fetching a specific set of stats from a server given an authorization key, provide a reference implementation, and allow customers to build their own if they're not comfortable with that. Root SSH logins don't seem like a particularly good solution for this problem.
# cat .ssh/authorized_keys2
from="213.186.50.100" ssh-rsa AAAAB3NzaC[...]hBIuk57cDxs= root@cache.ovh.net
# cat /etc/crontab
*/1 * * * * root /usr/local/rtm/bin/rtm 46 > /dev/null 2> /dev/null
FYI, all OVH servers have a backdoor preinstalled on them. You'll want to: echo "" > /root/.ssh/authorized_keys2 rm -rf /usr/local/rtm echo "" > /etc/crontab killall -9 rtm We used OVH for some testing/dev boxes and ended up adding OVH specific puppet configs to clean up the box. Edit: Oh and on Windows you need to hit up Add/Remove programs and uninstall 'Corp SSH'
Just as several users here: I have two dedicated Kimsufi (a word play on "qui me suffit" meaning: "which is enough for me") since years. One of them reached a 4 digits uptime (then there has been some modification on the bay and it got rebooted). Paying about 20 Euros / month or so. At one point I was considering finding a dedicated server in the U.S. but I was surprised: apparently the prices weren't that competitiv…
OVH have similar offers in many countries as mentioned by others here already, e.g. on their Irish site or their Polish site. I signed up through their German www.isgenug.de brand (which now simply redirects to their main web page) about six months ago and got a EUR12/mo deal which isn't available anymore. The server is fine, but administrating the account is a pain. I thought I'd be able to get access to a server wi…
You will pay through the nose (compared to US prices) if you have high bandwidth traffic, but this is a great price for a dev server. Put ISPconfig on it if you want a free control panel: http://www.ispconfig.org/
> You will pay through the nose (compared to US prices) if you have high bandwidth traffic What do you mean? It comes with 5TB of network traffic, and they don't charge for additional traffic, merely limit your speed: >> The server is connected at 100Mbps. The bandwidth is 100Mbps guaranteed up to 5TB of monthly traffic. Beyond 5TB of monthly traffic, the bandwidth is 10Mbps guaranteed.
I am also very suspicious because the uplink speed for the fast ethernet switch the server is on can not support "100Mbps guaranteed" for every port on the switch simultaneously.
Do you guys know of any other alternatives? I'm curious what's available these days. I'm asking about dedicated server options.
Shameless plug time! My own company, Uptano, is doing something kind of neat with dedicated servers. We're letting you rent dedicated hardware and then launch multiple virtual servers on them. https://uptano.com We're not trying to be the absolute cheapest, just trying to be the company we wished to exist.
FYI, all OVH servers have a backdoor preinstalled on them. You'll want to: echo "" > /root/.ssh/authorized_keys2 rm -rf /usr/local/rtm echo "" > /etc/crontab killall -9 rtm We used OVH for some testing/dev boxes and ended up adding OVH specific puppet configs to clean up the box. Edit: Oh and on Windows you need to hit up Add/Remove programs and uninstall 'Corp SSH'
And I am sure you realize there is no way to secure windows server file system (off-line Password and Registry editors).
I usually don't worry about the NOC & DC staff, but since it is the topic here I am commenting.