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Is there a smaller & cheaper dedi than the KS-1?
Excluding kidechire. And I am well aware that what I describe below is a damn VPS, as well just running the damn thing as a dedi would cost more that the selling price.
Pretty much I would be interested at a light version of the KS1 - so an atom based box with at least:
Nic: 100Mbit+
Ram: 1GB+
Disk: 80GB+
Cpu: 2 threads @ ~ thread score of the N2800
Obviously cheaper than the KS1.
Does such a thing exist anywhere in the physical world? 
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not in this universe
Not even santa van offer that next cristmass
no.
Who?
Rick?
Who?
this world is horrible, guess I will have to hope for a ks1 and it being with a n2800
You should pay Scaleway.com a visit.
wait for online.net special deals on black friday
I have used them, but technically they fall under the vps category no?
nothing that will go as low as KS1 and it even if it does it will be with the via nano which is pretty weak.
edit: In retrospect, I should have edited my above post (acted too fast). If any mod wants to merge them, by all means do so.
Some providers may sell these so called "Blade Servers".
There are some 4U-6U racks that contain up to 20-40 individual blades. However at that many blades, you are looking at ARM-level performance.. The pictured ones are more larger individually and thus have more performance and storage/RAM.
Prices can be as low as 40 USD/year if you buy annually.. (3.3 USD/m)
If you get an offer for that, please let me know, I'd like to colo my Atari 2600.
Would a RPI work?
I doubt you'll ever find a price this low. That's really not profitable..
Thats a "Blade":
Heres one such offer from late 2015 after a quick google search:
www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?t=1515807
It does exist, but you have to keep ur eyes open for this stuff.. Blade servers are pretty much dead by this point with VPS's taking over the market share.
RPI as in raspberry? no due to arm performance most likely (doubt they can do n2800 similar core benchmark score).
dream is dying
There's this Digicube server, which is close: http://digicube.fr/rapidserveurs/55
1) Kidechires, 2 EUR for https://documentation.online.net/en/dedicated-server/offers/2014/server-dedibox-kidechire (long gone, will not return, but those of us who bought, still enjoy them) -- oh just now noticed you said "excluding".
2) https://www.digicube.fr/rapidserveurs from 4 EUR (if paid yearly).
3) Scaleway ARM instance for 3 EUR, but eh, that one is weird and inconvenient in some aspects, with that network-based storage, NATed IPv4 (even though it's a dedicated IP) and no IPv6.
I meant the ARM instance. On those the physical board with a quad core CPU, its own RAM and NIC is all yours to use. Storage is network-based, but there are also some Atom dedis with SAN based storage too (doesn't make them a VPS). Sure, with non-local storage you don't get the same kind of privacy as with local (a local SATA HDD is not readable by host without shutting down your server). But at least you can be certain there's no CPU or RAM overselling, and you can use 100% of all four CPU cores 24x7 without disturbing anyone.
yea that is true. Doubt though any arm can do ~600 benchmark score. Also it's been out of stock for quite some time now. Scaleway was my fall back plan - with the VC1S plan since C1 is mia - but I feel that if I go that way, hell I might as well get the smallest kvm plan from a reputable host and benefit from raid / cpu score.
Well that one is just a regular VPS, you might as well get the OVH VPS-SSD for same 3 EUR and benefit from normal local storage and better IPv6 (still one IP, but at least it's a static one), better DDoS protection and one time fee add-on IPs.
Scaleway's arm servers, are more powerful (if used as multithread and not single thread) compared to those weak atoms like kidechire (e.g. n2800 or even older like 270). But it's arm, so, there are software limitations.
As of out of stock, there are daily "windows" you can grab them, i created one just yesterday.
Just did a bit of googling, can't really find the score of the Marvell Armada 370 which is what C1 apparently has. On a forum it was "calculated" it has ~ 100-150 passmark, while the n2800 is ~ 600.
Most of the stuff that I would be running are not multi-thread friendly nor cpu heavy in average but they do some high spikes for few secs.
264 single core, 705 all 4 cores.
http://web.archive.org/web/20160414104522/http://serverbear.com/benchmark/2015/04/15/Oxs7ynjD6TKKb8ta
Compared to N2800
439 single core, 868 all "4" cores.
http://web.archive.org/web/20160305094140/http://www.bad-code.fr/unixbench-du-ks-1-atom-n2800-2-go-kimsufi
As you can see it's not 4-6 times slower, but much closer.
@rm_ thank you! my google search term fu is quite weak - what search terms did you use
that would be enough to justify getting one and trying it out. But as you pointed out, if I go that way I might as well get the ovh vps for 3.6
But let's keep on dreaming for a bit more.
I had a score ~800 in serverbear on scaleway server (all cores), but I cannot find the results in my email... Must have deleted it...
Yes, at some point they rolled out an updated kernel version, and the performance improved significantly. Actually I was wondering, are these 264/705 results before or after the improvement.