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Looking at all this, I think Linode takes the prize.

Linode

  • $20 - 360, 12GB, 200GB
  • $30 - 720, 24GB, 400GB
  • $260 - 2880, 96GB, 1600GB
  • 32 bit

Bitfolk

  • Andy Smith and co (friend of Adrians)
  • £80-440/year for 120MB-720MB domain
  • £8-80 240MB 7.5GB, 60GB
  • £23-230 480MB, 22.5GB, 180GB
  • £44-440 840MB, 45GB, 360GB
  • out of capacity (actually just over weekends), 840MB max :(

Bytemark

  • top of the line (no expansion):
  • AMD X2 5600, 4GB, 2x320GB = 270 setup, 130/month, 1GB NFS, 100GB monthly bandwidth
  • £15/month (150/year) 150MB, 10GB, 50GB BW
  • £27/month (270/year) 300MB, 20GB, 100GB BW
  • £36/month (360/year) 450MB, 30GB, 150GB BW
  • £45/month (450/year) 600MB, 40GB, 200GB BW
  • £49/month+50 (539/year) 2000, 100GB, 200GB BW (Atom)

ElasticHosts

  • £39/290 - 360, 12GB, 100GB BW
  • £71/720 - 2048, 50GB, 200GB BW
  • burstable traffic

Slicehost

  • Xen based, CPU scaled by memory, RAID-1
  • 256MB/10GB/100GB xfer $20/month
  • 512MB/20GB/200GB xfer $38/month
  • 1024MB/40GB/400GB xfer $70/month
  • 2048MB/80GB/800GB xfer $130/month
  • extra IPs, slices on different physical boxes, but no sharing of IPs between boxes
  • all 64-bit

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud

  • $74/month (1CPU (1.2GHz new CPU or 1.7GHz old Xeon), 1.7GB memory, 160GB storage “moderate” IO performance) 32-bit
  • $298/month (2CPU (2.4GHz new CPU or 3.4GHz old Xeon), 7.5GB memory, 850GB storage, “high” IO performance) 64-bit
  • $595/month (4CPU (2.4GHz new CPU or 3.4GHz old Xeon), 15GB memory, 1690GB storage, “high” IO performance) 64-bit

Dreamhost

  • basic hosting - full shell access, no CPU spec given
  • shared server (VServer)
  • Intended for webhosting - e.g. not as a backup server
  • $120/year (discounts for multiyear purchases) (+$1/month per 10MB for private hosting)
  • first purchase use “max97” discount code to get 97 dollars off - i.e. $20/year.
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