currency converter
May 22, 2011
Currency conversion working again (sort of)
Got a sort of implementation of currency conversion working again - unfortunately it isn't live so I have to update the rates manually. But they don't change massively over time, so it's probably good enough.
Anyway, you can now sort the leaderboard on price in euros or dollars which is what is useful. Enjoy!
May 16, 2011
Rejigged the pricing cutoffs
Due to currency rate changes, the pricing cutoffs are put back to US$50, CAD$50 and AUD$50. The UK Sterling cutoff remains at £30. I also want to see if I can get the automatic currency converter working again, but this time server side if possible.
I have NINE different new entries which have been suggested by users of this site over the past few months. I'll be adding most of these over the next two days. Enjoy!
Jun 10, 2010
Updated the OVH price drop
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.
Aug 29, 2009
Added Currency Converter
It was annoying me that I couldn't easily compare the prices of the dedicated server offerings so I added a quick AJAX currency converter which live converts the prices using Google Finance. You can sort that column too so it's easy to rank the items. Enjoy!