Dedicated Server - Pricing

[Xander]

* New 64Bit Hardware
* 100 MBit data transfer speed
* New Firewall
* New SSL Certificates
* Free FTP backup space – 80 GB

* AMD Athlon 64 3,000+
* 1,024 MB DDR RAM
* 2x80 GB hard drive (RAID1)

* Microsoft Server 2003 64-Bit Std. Edition

For £69 a month, is this a good dedi box price and i know this will be good for hosting mir2 without any problems.

Any one else know any good offers?

 

[MentaL]

average price.............

 

[Xander]

With renting a dedi box do i need to explain what im doing with it? Can they cancel it if they find out im running a private server?

Do they check whats running on box's?

 

[MentaL]

of course they check, lol.

 

[Xander]

So how do you run yours on a box they check? If they know its illegal why dont the people hosting your server shut it down?

 

[Azura]

They dont ask you at all. I've never had problems running from a box. Most of the Idiots dont even know what it is lol

 

[Xander]

Lyncus is your box located in the UK? I know with MentaL's its not i think its some where like Germany aint it?

 

[Azura]

I have had many my last box was based in London

 

[Elijah]

Chances of them taking time to really check what you'r running and if its legal or not legal is low.

Plus theres nothing much to loose if they canceled your hosting, inless you paid for a full year at once, most you could loose is £69 i guess, and thats just a bump on the head to tell you to be more cautious of who you use next time.

/Tofas

 

[Dataforce]

Where is that box hosted?

Generally, without your password they cant actually see whats on the box, they can just monitor the traffic.

 

[Xander]

Im not sure where the box is hosted, doesnt seem to say though i havnt ordered yet. This is who i decided to go with in the end seems like its a fair enough deal.

http://order.1and1.co.uk/xml/order/...43EFB9B8F03048.TC30a?__frame=_top&__lf=Static

 

[Dizon]

No. Thats 81.08p Inc VAT also 49 pound setup fee unless u order 12 months. so no thats not that good of a deal.

 

[MentaL]

So how do you run yours on a box they check? If they know its illegal why dont the people hosting your server shut it down?

apart of my contract terms and stuff, cant mension but lala

 

[Blizzard]

how bought u save up like £1000 and then buy ur own with dual core processor and 2/3 HDD 4GB memory and then pay a proper company to host it with unlimited bandwidth?

 

[urbanfox]

You could build a cheap A64 1GB server for under $350 bucks US taxed and shipped, not sure how much it would cost in the UK. Best bet is to just build your own server and host it yourself.

Building your own server and providing dedicated internet for it for 12 months (30 pounds a month?) would cost the same as about 7 months of dedicated hosting. Sure, you wouldn't have the super fast speeds of dedicated, but with decent internet unless you plan on 100+ players you should be fine. Assuming UK service providers don't have bandwidth caps.

 

[Dataforce]

how bought u save up like £1000 and then buy ur own with dual core processor and 2/3 HDD 4GB memory and then pay a proper company to host it with unlimited bandwidth?

Cos unlimited doesn't exist. Dedi providers *are* "proper companies" thats their speciality

You could build a cheap A64 1GB server for under $350 bucks US taxed and shipped, not sure how much it would cost in the UK. Best bet is to just build your own server and host it yourself.

Building your own server and providing dedicated internet for it for 12 months (30 pounds a month?) would cost the same as about 7 months of dedicated hosting. Sure, you wouldn't have the super fast speeds of dedicated, but with decent internet unless you plan on 100+ players you should be fine. Assuming UK service providers don't have bandwidth caps.

Yeh, they do. and terrible upload speed.

 

[urbanfox]

Yeh, they do. and terrible upload speed.

Oh my. Yikes. I thought they had 8mb/??? in the UK.

 

[Dizon]

We do just the upload doesnt seem to go over 448 kb unless you live in london.

 

[Senture]

Be support the fastest internet currently avaible, 24mb down 1.3mb up

Most ISP's are 8mb down 448kb up

 

[Elijah]

Be support the fastest internet currently avaible, 24mb down 1.3mb up

Most ISP's are 8mb down 448kb up

also all depends on area's.

Because i dont live in a major city, or actualy in the middle of the city at all, (outside in a small village) Means that im actualy locked to 2mb internet with 256k/b upload as they probebly wont upgrade my lines until most populated places are done.

hell i'd love to just get 8mb at the mo, and my ISP does offer it for the price im paying, just i can't see them updating my lines anytime soon.

/tofas