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Dedibox 2016 XC, SC and KS-1, Which worth to keep for long term?
With luck and patient, I am manage to grab a XC 2016 last night (they tend to have one available each day).
I was going to keep both SC and KS-1, but now I don't know which Dedi I should keep for personal usage (owncloud, small site, VPN, remote backup, VM testing etc), all three are so rare to catch..
Please help me to decide.
Specs recap ------------ Dedibox XC SATA 2016 €15.99 Intel C2750 2.40GHz 16 GB 1 x 1 TB 2.5 Gbps Dedibox SC SATA 2016 €8.99 Intel C2350 1,70GHz 4 GB 1 x 500 GB 2.5 Gbps Kimsufi KS-1 € 4.99 Intel Atom N2800 1.86GHz 2GB 1 x 500GB 100Mbps
What would you like to keep for long term
- Dedibox XC SATA 201639 votes
- Yes53.85%
- No46.15%
- Dedibox SC SATA 201639 votes
- Yes33.33%
- No66.67%
- Kimsufi KS-139 votes
- Yes41.03%
- No58.97%
Comments
Keep the smallest plan from each of them and don't put all your eggs in 1 basket.
Why not just keep all of them, all are cheap together less than $30 a month use one for production one for backups and keep one idle just in case.
Keep one at online. Their support has been amazing for me. OVH took over a week to answer a simple sales question last time I needed assistance.
Kimsufi take 3-7day to reply.
Online take 1 hours.
As i mentioned, 1 XC is currently available, good luckhttps://console.online.net/en/order/server
sorry, XC 2015
What I dont understand is, why do the personal servers get 2.5Gbit and the PRO/Storage only get 1Gbit?....
Those 2.5Gbits are kind of standard NIC for their Dedibox 2016, my another post regarding SC has a bit more details. It's capped to 1G when reaching outside. 150Mbit when cross continent.
Keep online.net for the gigabit, and a kimsufi for lower bandwidth stuff
Or wait and get a SoYouStart Atom with 1*2TB for 15 (no vat).
LOL - I've got KS-2 with 2 TB Enterprise class drive for 9,99 Euro
Sounds like each one of them is fine for you. I have Online and OVH dedicated servers as well and I know how hard the decision is (it hurt a little when I cancelled both my Kidechires, but they were just so useless for me). I even got the KS1 for 2,99€, so I will never give that on up
For me OVH is more reliable when it comes to their network and Online is nice for their specials, that have a lot of ressources.
Yes, OVH's network is more stable even its only 100Mb. However, VM testing is almost a no go on N2800 due to lack of VT-x.
SC can do it all for me but a bit slow when comes to remote into the win2k12 VM.
XC a bit high cost for personal usage but it has so much HW power packed in.
It will be a bad feeling if I have to cancel my ks-1 eventually..
Looks like XC is winning slowly, anyone else want to vote?
Got 2 Kidechires. Those are valuable.
Never have a chance to catch the orange €2 myself (legendary quality).
Another discovery I have today - OVH still has better average speed to North America. 100Mbit maxed out all the time, Online.net is floating between 16Mbit to 150Mbit.
Have similar price tags
Use my KS-3 as RDP (Windows) and also sync (desktop sync) to my owncloud installation on KS-1.
I will take my Kimsufi anytime. Support? if its software related problems they will not answer it, but if this is HW problems kimsufi is fast enough. The replace my failing HDD for KS-1 with 2TB HDD very fast, less than 1 hour.
Intel Atom N2800 1.86GHz
2GB
1 x 2TB
100Mbps
Yeah the network is Onlines weak spot. I think they improved in the last months, but for a productive environment I would trust OVH more.
But keep the XC!
I used to have a I3 KS-3 but the NIC didn't perform well so I have to let it go. The older one may be better.
My KS-3 using this http://ark.intel.com/products/32209/Intel-82574L-Gigabit-Ethernet-Controller
Not sure what was the model for the KS-3 i had, but it's lagging badly when i have 2 virtual bridge and a few of NAT rules running in iptables.
@edan
Just order another KS-2C in BHS for testing.
Planning to install Windows? I use the Rescue System to install it (Windows 8).
Mostly likely will transfer my win2k12 qemu images on it instead. Feeling more comfortable with SSH xD
Hope I am not getting bad ping again after everything is up.
You can get Windows 8 for free actually, great for RDP server
Any instruction? xD I don't mind have another Windows 8 on my KVM. Even-though I tend to use win2008 or win2k12 for RDP
Check your PM
Thanks!!!
After 8 hours of intensive test between KS-2C and Dedibox XC 2016. I came up with few points..
XC 2016
Online.net did have network improvement and it's now compatible with OVH
Up to 250Mbps real speed to East coast, 50Mbps to West coast
16G RAM
Brand new datacenter grade hardware (except for the HDD)
8 physical cores, good for multi tasking
More peers in the same network
AES instruction set is a plus for encryption
Different continent, feeling safer for my backup
KS-2C
OVH's BHS network has lower ping than Online.net around the world
100Mbps network cap is still the weak point
Network performance is more consistent and stable
Older but faster 3.5' HDD
i3-2130 single thread performance is much higher than the C2750
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OVH has slightly better global network, even-though it's stable but In my use case, I still want the 1Gbps brush advantage. In addition, I am feeling confident to use XC as a spare and backup server. DDOS protection is not a main concern for this type of usage.
I am still keeping the XC at this point.
@edan
Same network issue on the KS-2C as I had before, sigh.. Not sure if this is OVH network issue or the NIC issue...
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