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Funny enough I finally got around to uploading this to post here but this is the only place I didnt post.
To clarify, this VPS was in New York how thats around 150 miles from DC I cant be too sure. But I think it has todo with InterNAPs backbone which contains some proprietary technology to them and they might have a node in VA/DC that has some epic speed as well.
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I since moved to chicago and the upload speeds are even higher there but downloads not as high. Being a VPS its limited to the 1Gbps LAN divided by 16 users (assumption dual quad ht box one thread per account) further more limited by what NFO provides out of its allotment from InterNAP but the later details dont seem to be too limiting in speed tests.
I cant stress how pleased I am with this as a general web server. CPU power is a bit limiting but for the money other than that detail for 30 bucks a month its a steal. You look around the web, 60 bucks a month buys you a damn Intel Atom blade with 2gb of ram 1TB of transfer 250gb of hdd space. 75 buys me a colocated 1U spot with 2.5TB transfer but then I have to buy hardware. 100 Bucks a month buys a Core 2 Duo unless you find a deal. Step up the VPS account a little 50 bucks a month gets you 2 threads on a i7/Nehalem or better Xeon, 2GB ram, 200 GB storage, 2TB transfer. Should be enough for a mildly demanding database server unless your VPS is getting continuously shafted onto low priority ht threads by the xen hypervisor.
Most cheap web hosts like the one I have had for years your on a rack with about 500 other customers and thats just not as good as it seems. Cheap VPS's from unreliable providers usually dont even come close to the specs. Most "unlimited" shared host plans of any kind be canceled by the time you use what this VPS can be used for. NFO would actually cancel a shared web host account for using more than I believe the terms say 7 minutes of cpu time for a script? They after all do rent VPS's and the amount of people on a shared web host box is too much to host a demanding site.
Not to mention the selling point for me was Windows Server 2003 and 2008 no extra charge.
To clarify, this VPS was in New York how thats around 150 miles from DC I cant be too sure. But I think it has todo with InterNAPs backbone which contains some proprietary technology to them and they might have a node in VA/DC that has some epic speed as well.
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I since moved to chicago and the upload speeds are even higher there but downloads not as high. Being a VPS its limited to the 1Gbps LAN divided by 16 users (assumption dual quad ht box one thread per account) further more limited by what NFO provides out of its allotment from InterNAP but the later details dont seem to be too limiting in speed tests.
I cant stress how pleased I am with this as a general web server. CPU power is a bit limiting but for the money other than that detail for 30 bucks a month its a steal. You look around the web, 60 bucks a month buys you a damn Intel Atom blade with 2gb of ram 1TB of transfer 250gb of hdd space. 75 buys me a colocated 1U spot with 2.5TB transfer but then I have to buy hardware. 100 Bucks a month buys a Core 2 Duo unless you find a deal. Step up the VPS account a little 50 bucks a month gets you 2 threads on a i7/Nehalem or better Xeon, 2GB ram, 200 GB storage, 2TB transfer. Should be enough for a mildly demanding database server unless your VPS is getting continuously shafted onto low priority ht threads by the xen hypervisor.
Most cheap web hosts like the one I have had for years your on a rack with about 500 other customers and thats just not as good as it seems. Cheap VPS's from unreliable providers usually dont even come close to the specs. Most "unlimited" shared host plans of any kind be canceled by the time you use what this VPS can be used for. NFO would actually cancel a shared web host account for using more than I believe the terms say 7 minutes of cpu time for a script? They after all do rent VPS's and the amount of people on a shared web host box is too much to host a demanding site.
Not to mention the selling point for me was Windows Server 2003 and 2008 no extra charge.