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For $200 per month you can get a quad core X3220 with 8 GB RAM and 2x 500GB disk with a large amount of bandwidth included: http://www.100tb.com/ .

I don't fully understand the love for large VPSes (that aren't even all that large) compared to dedicated hardware that have a better chance of having higher memory bandwidth, more RAM, and faster disk access; though I do understand that many are very happy with Linode as a business.




You can get a six-core 980x with 24GB of RAM and 4x1.5TB of HDD for $200 per month at http://www.hetzner.de/en/hosting/produkte_rootserver/eq10/

Not 100TB bandwidth though.


The ability to grow with a vps is much easier than with dedicated hardware.

Also on a semi related note, I (like you) suggested 100tb.com but we tried them out (just to test speeds) and they're pretty poor...


May I ask what part of the speeds were poor for you? I am curious.


I'll talk to the guy who actually tested them when he wakes up, but from what I understand network speeds were terrible. I'll get back to you when I know :-)


You really think for $200/month they're going to let you saturate the equivalent of a 300 megabit connection 24/7? You'll get shut off if you approach anything close to that, I'd bet, just like all the "unlimited bandwidth" hosts. That, or the transfer speeds your server gets will be nothing near the 300 megabits that'd be required to use 100 terabytes in a month.




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