<div>I suppose I should have been more clear, then. "Would save us money over our current setup." Your evidence seems to agree with that. </div>
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<div>If Rackmounted is cheaper yet, I'm all for it. <br></div>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 10:29 AM, Adam Megacz <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:megacz@hcoop.net">megacz@hcoop.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote style="BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; PADDING-LEFT: 1ex" class="gmail_quote"><br>Daniel Margolis <<a href="mailto:dan@af0.net">dan@af0.net</a>> writes:<br>> On technical grounds, everyone who's commented seems to agree that a<br>
> VPS would save us money.<br><br>VPS solutions seem cheap because we pay ultra-premium prices for our<br>current installation. NYC equals $$$.<br><br>I host <a href="http://gentzen.megacz.com/" target="_blank">gentzen.megacz.com</a> with <a href="http://rackmounted.com/" target="_blank">rackmounted.com</a> for $55/month. My<br>
machine has 16GB of ram; slicehost wants $800/month (!?!?!) for that<br>and linode doesn't even offer it.<br><br>I have 1TB of disk and a pair of opterons at my disposal, remote<br>reboot, and (by special agreement) for $5/month my service processor<br>
gets its own ethernet port. In 17 months I have never needed to<br>request "remote hands".<br><br>The key to understanding VPS pricing is realizing that the one scarce<br>resource they can't multiplex is RAM. How much RAM you get basically<br>
tells you how many people you're sharing a machine with (unless<br>they're stupid, the provider will be packing their machines to the<br>gills with memory). If they're skimpy on the memory, odds are they're<br>
oversubscribing their physical hardware.<br><br>I don't have strong opinions one way or the other on the VPS-or-not<br>decision. I just felt compelled to correct what have become<br>increasingly inaccurate factual statements. I don't want to see a<br>
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