Recent Blog Entries http://www.lowenddedi.net daily 1 2011-04-17T19:19:08Z Going read-only on Low End Dedis May 2012 onwards http://www.lowenddedi.net/low-end-dedi-news/going-read-only-on-low-end-dedis One guarantee in life is that things change! Unfortunately I longer have need of affordable low end dedicated servers, so I am putting this database into read-only mode from now on. It hasn't been updated since 2011 anyway, but to be honest if you want a low end dedi nowadays, simply go Kimsufi now they're letting you have Intel Core 2 Duo's for a crazy €15/month. No one can beat that really.

When the lowenddedi.net domain comes to expire, I'll let the site slip into the after-life.

Thanks for the support and interest! Good luck!

]]> No publisher admin OVH 2012-05-12T19:15:00Z Blog Entry Useful secondary market website for Low End Dedis http://www.lowenddedi.net/low-end-dedi-news/useful-secondary-market-website-for-low-end-dedis Since the recession's bite has deepened, there is no doubt that server spec per currency unit has stagnated. The market for low end dedis is no better than when this directory of offers was last updated, so I haven't bothered updating it. Sure, new providers come and old providers go, but for a better-than-Atom server the price floor definitely is the €30/month mark and unfortunately the introduction of Sandy Bridge hasn't pushed the old Core architectures into the value segment quite yet.

Oh here's an interesting thing. Want surplus low end dedi stock, or is that a stupid question? I bumped into the website at http://www.worldstream.nl/serverdeals.php recently where as far as I can tell, they list excess stock low end dedis starting from €25 per month upwards. They're one-off deals so not suitable for inclusion here, but the list is always being updated with the latest excess stock. You could pick yourself up a real bargain!

]]> No publisher admin LossLeadingCrazyCheap 2011-11-14T00:13:16Z Blog Entry Short maintenance window 19th Sept 2011 http://www.lowenddedi.net/low-end-dedi-news/short-maintenance-window-19th-sept-2011 Due to a major security breach in Plones before v4.0.8, tomorrow we'll be upgrading to v4.0.9. We've already run a dry run on a local copy and it went very smoothly, so ned Productions sites shouldn't be down for more than an hour. Of course, as always, read-only content will continue to be served from the caches during the downtime.

]]> No publisher admin Scheduled Maintenance 2011-09-18T20:30:26Z Blog Entry Currency conversion working again (sort of) http://www.lowenddedi.net/low-end-dedi-news/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!

]]> No publisher admin currency converter 2011-05-22T14:42:44Z Blog Entry Leaderboard has become transformed, wow! http://www.lowenddedi.net/low-end-dedi-news/leaderboard-has-been-transformed Ok, just finished adding all the products which had been sent to me since December 2010. And wow, what a difference six months makes!

The leaderboard has become transformed - indeed, what you can buy today for less than €35 or US$50 a month is truly astounding. Here are the changes:

Dropped from the Leaderboard due to no longer being competitive:

  1. Interserver's long standing Atom 330 server. Shame, it was one of the first entries on the Leaderboard.
  2. Gotekky's 2Gb RAM VPS
  3. FsckVPS's 2Gb RAM VPS

And why did these get dropped? Because you can pick up a full Intel Xeon server i.e. the thing running those VPSs for less than US$50 nowadays. Additions to the Leaderboard:

  1. IPAP's Intel Xeon X3450. Gee, what a server, this thing is like nine times faster than an Intel Atom 330 with four times the memory bandwidth and 8Gb of RAM. It even runs circles around my desktop workstation which is hardly slow. This is the new best server we know of.
  2. VolumeDrive's AMD Athlon X4 420. This is a fair beast in its own right running just over half the speed of the Xeon with 4Gb of RAM. Still it blasts past the Atom 330 and has the same memory bandwidth as the Xeon.
  3. Online.net's Intel Core 2 Duo T7200. This still beats the pants off an Intel Atom 330, easily twice faster and 50% more memory bandwidth. It also comes with 1Tb of HD in a RAID config, and 3Gb of RAM.
  4. Digicube Medium still puts up a very respectable showing, though you need to dive into the custom configurator to realise what a good deal can be got here. Here is a 2.8Ghz Athlon II X2 with 2Gb of RAM and supposedly unlimited transfer.

Other new entries which didn't make the leaderboard:

  1. W2 server's Intel Atom 330. 4Gb of RAM, and an unmetered 100Mbit NIC which makes it interesting.
  2. Swiftway's new Intel Atom D525. This can't be recommended given the competition above.

 

So there you go! Atoms are definitely last year's thing, this year even Intel Core 2 is becoming budget, it's definitely Nehelem and Phenom at the top end of the low end dedi market now that Sandy Bridge is coming on stream. Gee, welcome to 2011 - the year of the budget super server!

I have to admit, this is making me think of hopping ship to a new provider myself. We'll see what comes later in the year. Enjoy!

]]> No publisher admin IPAP VAServ DigiCube Swiftway Online.net W2 server VolumeDrive Interserver LossLeadingCrazyCheap 2011-05-16T18:05:00Z Blog Entry