This is just to let you know that this site will have write access disabled during tomorrow (Thurs 1st July) as our web hosting service, ned Productions Limited, is migrating onto a new and considerably more powerful server infrastructure.

There should be no downtime apart from the lack of write access. Full service should be restored on the 2nd July.

Here's the first of the new low end dedicated servers I intended to add: the DigiCube Small and DigiCube Medium with the Small having become quite famous on WHT recently as an outstandingly cheap Intel Atom server often recommended to anyone asking for such a thing.

What you probably did not expect is for this website to NOT recommend the Small and to instead add the Medium to its Leaderboard. This isn't because the Small isn't a great deal, it's rather because OVH's bottom end Kimsufi gives between 50-100% more in every single area including CPU for €5/month less and put simply, unless the DigiCube Small were going for €10/month it simply can't compete. In contrast the DigiCube Medium offers the best bang for its buck anywhere in the world, so it gets onto the Leaderboard.

In fact, so good is the DigiCube Medium that it pushed an entry off the Leaderboard for the very first time: Wholesale Internet's Dual Core Atom is simply no longer even remotely competitive with the other low end dedicated servers on the Leaderboard, so we have removed it from our strongly recommended list.

I have done two things, and thanks to those of you who persistently emailed me to fix them! Firstly I have fixed the broken AJAX currency converter which spontaneously stopped working - this is because the hardcoded Google server from which the script was pulling the exchange rates suddenly vanished, so I simply updated the IP.

Secondly I have updated the substantial price reduction which OVH have applied to their bottom model Kimsufi where they dropped from €25/month to €15/month. This is very good value for money, so much so that you have to wonder what all their fuss was last year when they raised that product's price from €20 to €25 citing permanently rising costs. However it raises to a yawning gap between that single core Celeron for €15 and the next model up, a quad core Intel Core 2 for €40/month. As I've said for the umpteenth time now, there really needs to be a dual core in there at about €25/month.

Since the last update, low end dedicated servers have just got better and better. I have two very low priced Atom servers in Europe coming shortly to the database which make sense of why OVH had to so dramatically drop their price - and yes, you can get a central European located Intel Atom 220 for €20/month and an Intel Atom 330 for just €25/month! But I'll leave the full reviews till when I get round to them which should be in the next few days.