Hosting Discussion - View Single Post - What can you use a low end/cheap server for?

Anjay · Post #7 (**permalink**) 01-27-2004, 07:42 AM

Yes, actually support is good - however you must realise that a lot of cheap dedicated server providers also seem to have a lot of downtime.

I used to know a company that offered dedicated server for something like $20 or about there a month, and it only came with 120gb bandwidth per year (The bandwidth was actually very good and from only tier-1 providers and the uptime was superb) and it was only used for testing purposes - to let people new in the hosting business learn how to secure a box and so on. They did pretty well if I remember correctly.

You can use a cheap dedicated server for a lot really. It simply depends about your business ethics and the uptime of the server. If it was a real cheap server and had lots of bandwidth, but was always down... I wouldn't even use it for support - since that alone will give you a bad image for your support never being available.

So again it really depends... but the only thing I'd use a cheap server for is to test out how good my server admins are when I hire a new one, can be pretty useful especially if normally your servers costs are about $600~ per month for a server with very little bandwidth, about 300gb~.