15 May
2015
15 May
'15
7:26 a.m.
https://www.serverpronto.com/accounts/cart2.php?gid=1&pid=446
How are these guys doing $29/mo "dedicated server"? What's the catch? They say it's a Xeon 3040 1.9GHz, so that's older/slower, but say I don't need speed. RAM 2G is anemic but doable if I don't need much RAM. Doesn't say ECC or not, so that's one possible catch (but usually Xeon==ECC). No RAID, that sucks, maybe it can be added as a cheap upgrade? Network looks very good.
Anyhow, that's 10-20X less than Rackspace wants for ded server. How are they doing this? Is there some VM or blade-ish thing going on here? Is it really a 1U box (or possibly even smaller form) somewhere just for me?