[Gllug] OT: Dedicated Server Supplier

[David Abbishaw]

I cant vouch for them as I've not used them but http://www.lucidnet.com/
seem very cheap for hosting - starting at £1.50 a month for 500mb web space
/ 10GB bandwidth and a web control panel to manage it.  They also offer dual
Xeon systems but you'd need to enquire for pricing.




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Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2005 16:06:09 +0000 (GMT)
From: Benedikt Heinen <beh at icemark.net>
Subject: Re: [Gllug] OT: Dedicated Server Supplier
To: Greater London Linux Users Group <gllug at gllug.org.uk>
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One question - why is it that hosting in the UK seems so bloody expensive? 
If there were a significant price in, say, DSL connectivity between the UK 
and other countries - THAT I could understand (simply because you don't 
have the option of going somewhere else).

But with hosting - what's the difference to you, if your server is hosted 
in the UK or somewhere in a brush in deepest Africa, as long as the 
provider offers the services you want, and as long as they have a decent 
connectivity.


Since just over a year, I've been hosting a machine with a provider in 
Germany (www.ipx-server.de -- their site is in German only, 
unfortunately), and I'm quite happy with them. The server I'm running has 
100MBit/s access to the next hop, and the provider has several GBit/s 
peerings to the outside, so I've never had any slow connections to that 
machine.

The (dedicated) machine I have is a 2GHz Celeron with 512MB RAM and a 
160GB disk, a GB of backup space. The machine cost EUR 149,- (~#100) setup 
fee, and EUR 470,- (~#300) a year to run - traffic up to 150GB/month, 
extra traffic coming in at EUR0.69/GB. [~#0.45]). (All prices excl. VAT).

That kind of price seems far below any offering I've seen here.

As of beginning of this year, they have changed their offerings (old 
contracts got some extra free traffic allowance, now at 1TB/month), and 
introduced flat-rate servers (100MBit/s all-you-can-eat) starting at 
around EUR 100,-(~#65)/month.

Even that comes in at a price tag around the cheapest of bytemark's 
(dedicated server) offerings...

Any clue, why there is such a price gap?


Since last July I've also had a second server at their site - both are 
running perfectly fine, as they should be. I've never had any problems 
with them. In the whole time I've had 3 or 4 emails from them, notifying 
me of potential downtime while they rebuilt their hosting centre and 
added/changed peerings, but there only has been actual non-reachability 
once.

So, as far as I'm concerned, I'm a happy customer there! :-)



As for Doug's original question - unfortunately, they don't offer dual CPU 
systems; RAID 1 they do offer.  Any idea, whether a Beowolf would do? 
(even if you choose a traffic capped machine; traffic within IPX's network 
isn't counted/charged, so if there is a lot of traffic between your 
machines there, it isn't a problem).



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