Got to be loving the Core 2 goodness!
It's a few months into 2010 and Low End Dedis appears to have become sufficiently well established that server providers are doing and updating their own entries as you will surely see as the database now spans two pages. Thanks in particular to those of you who emailed their thanks, comments and suggestions to me, and I just want to reiterate that if you are having problems with the Plone editing interface (this is the CMS upon which this website runs) then please fill in as much as you can and use the contact form to tell me to finish off your entry for you. Also, I really must remind some of you that I will only accept entries for servers which are publicly available on your website with no temporary price reductions or initial low price offers with the price rising later.
The really good news as we get into 2010 is that more and more low end dedis are gaining desktop class Intel Core 2 Duo processors (all Intel Core 2 entries are listed here). We have three non-VPS entries already in our database with maybe another two hidden from view because their submitters don't have them listed publicly on their websites yet. I just did a review of just such a horse of a server from Secured Servers and it went straight into the Leaderboard as it is the best US-located low end dedi for your money in this database right now. With a 2Ghz dual core Core 2 CPU and 2Gb of RAM you should find that it will run even the most CPU demanding web applications with ease - though as we have often said here, you would be surprised at how well an Intel Atom 330 does seeing as most web applications are HD or network bound rather than CPU bound.
Better still is that I haven't seen a new entry with some nasty Pentium 4 era technology in a long while now. It would seem that providers are realising that anything less than an Intel Core 1 just won't cut it in today's aggressive marketplace.
Such is the ongoing march of technology! I wonder when the first quad core low end dedi will appear? OVH will already do you a quad core for €40/month, so for it to drop to €35 or lower we might be thinking 2011 maybe. What a thought!
