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E5v2-SAT-1-16 Intel Xeon E5-1620v2 4c/8t 3.7 GHz/3.9 GHz
16GB DDR3 ECC 1600 MHz
SoftRaid 2x2TB SATA3
Up to 16 IP's (first IP free then once of setup cost per IP of €2.00 thereafter)
Location: Beauharnois (BHS) in Canada, and Roubaix (RBX), Gravelines (GRA) and Strasbourg (SBG) in France.
€29.99 EXCL VAT

NOTE: You need to provide proof of address / ID and then they'll remove EU VAT as we don't pay EU VAT in ZA.

I'm thinking of grabbing one of these and a) either letting my Kimsufi box lapse or b) keep it as a backup box.

This is too cheap considering you can stick VMWare / Proxmox / or other virtualization platforms on it due the 16 IP's you have access too...

Thoughts?
 
I'll stick with my Hetzner box. Only have a single ipv4 IP but their service is good.

I tried OVH a few years ago and it wasn't a pleasant experience (coming from Hetzner).
 
DrJohnZoidberg said:
I'll stick with my Hetzner box. Only have a single ipv4 IP but their service is good.

I tried OVH a few years ago and it wasn't a pleasant experience (coming from Hetzner).
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I've had both OVH (Kimsufi) and online.net boxes and I like the French location. Works well from here.

I haven't had any issues with OVH's network so far, so I'm giving it a go.

I think i'll just chuck VMWare on it for ease of upgrade path / use - possibly Proxmox if i'm brave.
 
Fully agree with all points, Hetzner also does have a poorer network compared to OVH. (in my opinion)
 
I'm using NAT on my Hetzner box to get around only having a single IP. Also using vhosts on a reverse proxy for all http stuff. Not great having a single point of failure but none of my stuff is mission critical.
 
If anyone's interested. I ordered and it got provisioned within 2 days. I've ordered the 16IP's (@ 32EU once off and i'm installing ESXI 6.5 to run my VM's).

Code: 
root@rescue:~# wget x86.ca/bench.sh -O - -o /dev/null|bash
CPU model :  Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-1620 v2 @ 3.70GHz
Number of cores : 8
CPU frequency :  3419.609 MHz
Total amount of ram : 16069 MB
Total amount of swap : 0 MB
System uptime :   1 min,
Download speed from CacheFly: 26.0MB/s
Download speed from OVH, Beauharnois, Canada: 13.5MB/s
Download speed from Atlantic.NET, Toronto, Canada: 8.18MB/s
Download speed from ColoCrossing, Chicago, USA: 8.28MB/s
Download speed from Choopa, Piscataway, USA: 19.3MB/s
Download speed from Leaseweb, Manassas, VA, USA: 28.3MB/s
Download speed from Atlanta (10Gbps pipe), USA: 12.8MB/s
Download speed from Volume Drive, Wilkes Barre, USA: 23.5MB/s
Download speed from Atlantic.NET, Orlando, USA: 10.7MB/s
Download speed from Incero, Dallas, USA: 13.6MB/s
Download speed from Atlantic.NET, San Francisco, USA: 12.7MB/s
Download speed from QuadraNET, LA, USA: 12.8MB/s
Download speed from OVH, Roubaix, FR: 60.6MB/s
Download speed from Redstation, London, UK: 90.1MB/s
Download speed from Linode, Frankfurt, DE: 17.4MB/s
Download speed from Leaseweb, Haarlem: 79.0MB/s
Download speed from Linode, Tokyo, JP: 8.84MB/s
Download speed from Digital Ocean, Singapore: 5.89MB/s
Download speed from iiNet, Perth, AU: 931KB/s
Disk throughput - 1 time    : 4.5 GB/s
Disk throughput - 2 time    : 4.3 GB/s
Disk throughput - 3 time    : 4.5 GB/s
Average Disk throughput     : 4.43333 MB/s

Code: 
root@rescue:~# smartctl -a /dev/sda

=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Device Model:     HGST HUS724020ALA640
Serial Number:    PN2134P6JKTAAT
LU WWN Device Id: 5 000cca 22de444a9
Firmware Version: MF6OABY0
User Capacity:    2,000,398,934,016 bytes [2.00 TB]
Sector Size:      512 bytes logical/physical
Rotation Rate:    7200 rpm
Form Factor:      3.5 inches
Device is:        Not in smartctl database [for details use: -P showall]
ATA Version is:   ATA8-ACS T13/1699-D revision 4
SATA Version is:  SATA 3.0, 6.0 Gb/s (current: 6.0 Gb/s)
Local Time is:    Sat May 27 11:44:02 2017 CEST
SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability.
SMART support is: Enabled

Code: 
root@rescue:~# smartctl -a /dev/sda | grep -i power
9 [B]Power_On_Hours[/B]          0x0012   098   098   000    Old_age   Always       -       [B]18902[/B]

Code: 
root@rescue:~# smartctl -a /dev/sdb

=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Device Model:     HGST HUS724020ALA640
Serial Number:    PN1134P6KUE20W
LU WWN Device Id: 5 000cca 22df5d4d5
Firmware Version: MF6OABY0
User Capacity:    2,000,398,934,016 bytes [2.00 TB]
Sector Size:      512 bytes logical/physical
Rotation Rate:    7200 rpm
Form Factor:      3.5 inches
Device is:        Not in smartctl database [for details use: -P showall]
ATA Version is:   ATA8-ACS T13/1699-D revision 4
SATA Version is:  SATA 3.0, 6.0 Gb/s (current: 6.0 Gb/s)
Local Time is:    Sat May 27 11:45:20 2017 CEST
SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability.
SMART support is: Enabled

Code: 
root@rescue:~# smartctl -a /dev/sdb | grep -i power
9 [B]Power_On_Hours[/B]          0x0012   098   098   000    Old_age   Always       -       [B]14153[/B]

Code: 
LOCATION: GRA1 - Rack: G111A25 (FRANCE)
 
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