Decent Dedicated Server from DediDirect Dual Quad L5420 2.5Ghz 16GB DDR2) for $99

serverbear

Came across this dedicated offer earlier & thought it was pretty solid for those that might consider reselling:

Dual Quad L5420 2.5Ghz
16GB DDR2 ECC Registered Memory
1TB SATAII HDD 7.2K
10TB Premium BW
1Gbps Port
1 Usable IP Addresses
HDD, Memory, Uplink upgrades available

Only available until Midnight on the 12th Aug.

http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?t=1181012

They'll do it for $40/month if you pay a $400 setup fee.

EricCubixCloud

Looks like a decent offer.
How are their reviews - any personal experience? I can't tell if they run their own data centers or not.

Thanks for sharing, serverbear.

dearroy

They cannot do RAID10 so this time i will pass.

rds100

These types of servers are very old and cost less than $300 of ebay. If you really want such a config - buy one and then colo it - would probably be cheaper.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/HP-ProLiant-DL360-G5-457927-001-Server-Dual-Quad-Core-2-5Ghz-L5420-16GB-2x-PS-/271031980609?pt=COMP_EN_Servers&hash=item3f1ac3d241#ht_500wt_1025

mikehighend

Avoid DediDirect at all costs. I won't be the one to talk about specifics of what I hear but if you google for a few minutes you'll find out everything you need to know. It's ran by a young guy named Vee Tran.

And Eric, they are a reseller.

VPNsh

@rds100 will anywhere even colo for less than $40 a month? Not seen anywhere below that amount for 1u.. closest is Joe's Datacenter and Datashack from what I've seen.

dearroy

@mikehighend said: they are a reseller.

What and which company's server are they reselling?

dearroy

@liamwithers Dacentec also have $40/m colo service.

serverbear

@mikehighend said: Avoid DediDirect at all costs. I won't be the one to talk about specifics of what I hear but if you google for a few minutes you'll find out everything you need to know.

I normally check reviews before posting offers etc & couldn't find anything about these guys that was negative.

Taz

Colo at DataShack? Joe's? BURSTNET ( If you become one of their reseller, it is around 35$ I think)..

dearroy

@serverbear said: I normally check reviews before posting offers etc & couldn't find anything about these guys that was negative.

One of my friends has been with them for a few months.they are good enough for the price.

justinb

@serverbear said: I normally check reviews before posting offers etc & couldn't find anything about these guys that was negative.

veeservers, counterstrike kiddies or w/e

AlexBarakov

Not nearly great deal.I can get a server with that specs, including the hdds fot around 250-270$...

DanielM

Why not get a kimsufi? Better spec better network and cheaper overall.

Damian

I couldn't find anything on their website about additional IP addresses?

AlexBarakov

@Damian said: I couldn't find anything on their website about additional IP addresses?

I THINK i have asked them before and they responded it was 1$ per additional IP.

DanielM

@Damian said: I couldn't find anything on their website about additional IP addresses?

£1 Each or Per Failover IP (Basicaly an extra IP max 3 per server of this type)
IP Blocks Cost: (These RIPE IP's Can have there netname and address changed)

£7.19 For 4 Extra
£21 For 16 Extra
£83 For 64 Extra
£167 For 128 Extra

Damian

$2 per IP at the large block. Precludes use as a LEB VPS server...

DanielM

@Damian said: $2 per IP at the large block. Precludes use as a LEB VPS server...

Am sure you could get them to route your own IP's if you had enough.

JTR

I used DediDirect before. Their network is shitty, the entire datacenter was going down randomly, the CPU wasn't very good at single-threaded performance, the hardware was old, my hard drive had over 2yrs of continuous runtime, and when I needed to use a KVM, I had the lovely surprise of being billed $25/2hrs for it.

I switched after the incident with the KVM to another provider, who has done much better despite being cheaper.

AlexBarakov

@JTR said: I switched after the incident with the KVM to another provider, who has done much better despite being cheaper.

share with us

DanielM

@JTR said: I had the lovely surprise of being billed $25/2hrs for it.

thats cheap lol iomart (Rapidswitch) charges £50 an hour (Thats around $90 an hour)

Oliver

I have used them before as well. Only reason I cancelled the service was because of outages and shitty network. IIRC a lot went over Cogent which meant performance was often lacking.

I had no problems dealing with Vee Tran though or the other staff I had correspondence with. They seemed professional to me.