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TSmediumsliced
post Mar 2 2007, 12:16 AM, updated 19y ago

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Hi all,

Seeing and experiencing some of the wonders that OpenVPN can do with respect to overcoming TM's unfair (IMHO) throttling of bittorrent, I would like to invite all those knowledgeable in related subjects to come forward in this thread to share some information in getting our own private OpenVPN services up and running. For the sake of the community and in protest of the unfair limiting of a service that we paid for, fair and square.

To start the ball rolling. Let's talk about hosts. What sort of hosts should we be looking for? This would be going out to experienced webmasters or perhaps even hosting resellers, though anybody with their RM0.02 can chip in too if they have something constructive to add. Should we be looking at shared hosting? Dedicated hosting? I guess American based hosts are out of the question, 'cos of potential issues with copyright, the RIAA and the MPAA and whatnot. Please chime in with your thoughts and opinions.

Thanks!

PS: All this is for personal information only. Those that intend to profit from it, please don't go overboard. If you intend to start a for-profit VPN service, remember to not gouge the users. I personally want to set up a server for myself for the use of me and my friends.

PPS: Existing VPN providers, don't feel that I'm threatening your rice bowl. Not everybody is inclined to get their hands and feet dirty, so you will still have your ready supply of customers. Also, this might be a good place to improve your service by increasing the collective's knowledge.

Framework:

1.0 Choosing the right host & hosting package (start)
2.0 Setting up OpenVPN (not yet started)
2.1 Config options (not yet started)
3.0 Testing and verification (not yet started)
4.0 Enjoy! (end)
5.0 Legal repercussions (covering our asses)

Links:
1) http://openvpn.net/ (OpenVPN homepage)
2) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Openvpn (Wikipedia entry on OpenVPN)

This post has been edited by mediumsliced: Mar 2 2007, 12:57 AM
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post Mar 2 2007, 01:41 AM

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I'd be more than happy to help out here, I'm not making a profit out of my VPN service either but here goes (I'll keep it short and simple).

1.0: You'd best look for either a dedicated server / colocation service that offers at least 10mpbs connection, its better if its dedicated but if its shared among other users in the datacenter that's fine too. You'd probably want to check their TOS if its a truly unmetered connections or maybe something like 1000GB / month. Also important is the country's copyright laws.

2.0: www.openvpn.net has fairly detailed instructions on how to setup the server, the one that you might find a hassle is creating the certificates indivually, but there is an option to auth externally. Personally I'm using the cert solution (using a semi-automatic generation script) as I can set them to expire at the end of their subscription period, the downside of this is that I can't retract a cert thus enforcing a no refunds policy.

2.1: Not much to config here, most of the clients can work with the standard config file, the only changes that have to be made are to set the certificates and keys in place. Advanced tweaking is available, i.e what kind of routing you'd like but I feel that the default is good enough. However I am experimenting a bit with the MTU settings of the server/client to see if will give any performance improvement.

3.0: N/A

4.0: N/A

5.0: Since my server is hosted locally, I doubt the RIAA would bother to come checking Malaysia, however to cover my asses, I have banned a number of IP's that are known to be 'spies' from connecting to this server, whiles this is not a comprehensive solution, the list is updated whenever possible.


Additional Information
There are actually two ways to route your BT traffic through the VPN connection
1. Through a SOCKS proxy
This is the solution I am using, the problem occurs that the socks servers connections can be become saturated stuffing up your connections. I'm working on a script that will loadbalance the socks connections over a few proxies, and also to 'kill' off 'dead' connections.
2. Routing all traffic through the VPN
This is what is normally used under corporate VPNs whereby all traffic is routed via VPNs, the reason I don't use this is that it has unpredicatble results in a DHCP network like ours(especially on windows based machines), and it will cause additional bandwidth usage.


Hope this helps you guys and if anyone is interested in setting up another VPN server, do let me know, I'd love to setup another server but am seriously lacking the funds to do so atm.

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post Mar 2 2007, 09:25 AM

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DS, I am currently looking at hosts located in the Netherlands. I read that they have more liberal use policies. What do you think about that? What are the requirements for a server? Do we need a control panel or is SSH good enough?

Let's say this hosting package comes with 1000 GBs of traffic a month. Does this count for both upload and download? Because ultimately we intend to run BT over VPN, there'll be lots of traffic in and outbound of the server so will take that into consideration for bandwidth costs.

I found a Dutch service that's barebones going for EUR39/month for 1000 GB transfer. Link:

http://www.leaseweb.com/index.php?p=express1

If unmetered, there's this package going for EUR69 a month for a 10 Mbps link:

http://www.leaseweb.com/index.php?p=flatfee1

Am trying to look for their ToS or AUP but can't seem to find it. Will send them an email later from the office.
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post Mar 2 2007, 09:31 AM

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definitely it is 1000GB for both upload and download
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post Mar 2 2007, 09:39 AM

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So, theoritically:

1,024 kbps / 384 kbps D/U per user, maxed 24 hours a day gives us:

11,059,200 kB / 4,147,200 kB D/U per user, running for 30 days:

331,776,000 kB / 124,416,000 kB D/U per user per month.

Wow. Add those two numbers up and we are looking at a theoretical max of ~455 GB per user per month. Get two guys using BT over VPN and we're spent.

I guess unmetered would be the best bet.
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post Mar 2 2007, 10:24 AM

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I have spoken to LeaseWeb before, they are quite liberal in their usage policies. Was planning to setup a TF service there, but in the end, i was like, i didn't want to go through all the hassle administrating a service; if things go wrong then people will blame me. TF is very much DIY-friendly anyways. smile.gif

Furthermore, there is no such thing as "unmetered" really. Their sysadmins monitor bandwidth traffic, and if one particular server is hogging all the bandwidth, they will shut you down. This is because they themselves have a limited amount of bandwidth to distribute, and if they find one VPN server utilizing a disproportionate amount of the bandwidth, they will surely take corrective action. They also have their other customers to consider.

If you go with LeaseWeb, you definitely need to limit the number of users to make the project viable. What you need to check is whether they allow VPNs to be run from their servers.

With TF, i would only have accepted 5 users, allocating each a limit of 200GB transfer a month (which is a lot really, unless you're a power user), and charge about RM40-50 each per month.
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post Mar 2 2007, 11:12 AM

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Thanks for your input, Tentris. Now, when you say excessive usage, by that you mean utilizing more than the allocated 10 Mbps? I thought that it would be automatically limited by the hosts so we don't have to worry about having the service shut down on us?
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post Mar 2 2007, 11:44 AM

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I search for quite some time too..

found 2-3 dedi host that have no problem with installing vpn service

US & Germany I guess

both offer 100mbit shared port with average 15-25mbit & burstable up to 50mbit (seems reasonable)

thats roughly 4500G+ output transfer (unlimited input)

the problem is .. money....!

being poor is no fun! icon_question.gif

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post Mar 2 2007, 11:51 AM

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QUOTE(mediumsliced @ Mar 2 2007, 11:12 AM)
Thanks for your input, Tentris. Now, when you say excessive usage, by that you mean utilizing more than the allocated 10 Mbps? I thought that it would be automatically limited by the hosts so we don't have to worry about having the service shut down on us?
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It means that the servers are not on a dedicated 10 Mbps link, and that your server in general seems to be hogging the bandwidth making other servers on the same connection seem sluggish
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With Leaseweb, I can personally vouch that they're unmetered (at about $600-700/month per server for 100Mbps). A website I know pushes out in total about 2.4Gbps across 26 servers for well over half the day, every day, for that amount. Although Leaseweb isn't particularly happy about that, they honour it smile.gif

If you do go down this path, make sure you get the nForce-based dedicated servers, vs the VIA-based ones, as you lose about 5-10Mbps throughput with the VIA Rhine NIC (from our testing).
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QUOTE(wKkaY @ Mar 2 2007, 11:58 AM)
If you do go down this path, make sure you get the nForce-based dedicated servers, vs the VIA-based ones, as you lose about 5-10Mbps throughput with the VIA Rhine NIC (from our testing).
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that is very informative.

is there any reading / site that discuss this thoroughly?

BTW, there are calculations on how much vpn connection : RAM ratio ? I remember reading bout that somewhere.

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post Mar 2 2007, 12:40 PM

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QUOTE(fairx @ Mar 2 2007, 12:04 PM)
that is very informative.

is there any reading / site that discuss this thoroughly?

BTW, there are calculations on how much vpn connection : RAM ratio ? I remember reading bout that somewhere.
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You'd have to tweak that out yourself I guess, since its not just dependant on the VPN but on the services you run, ie. socks, http etc etc proxies.. yadda yadda..
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nice place to search dedicated server package smile.gif
http://forums.hostsearch.com/forumdisplay.php?f=25
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post Mar 3 2007, 01:34 PM

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i think its too hard due to limited budget, what if someone set up a Malaysian torrent website? and only accepts registration user from local ip?


ehem.. i mean for legal content? lol tongue.gif
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That's a semi limited solution, cause while the tracker will be there, who will actually bother to upload to it? You'd still need 'outside' content. biggrin.gif


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QUOTE(Diligent Sloth @ Mar 3 2007, 01:42 PM)
That's a semi limited solution, cause while the tracker will be there, who will actually bother to upload to it? You'd still need 'outside' content. biggrin.gif
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oh.. in that case, if im not mistaken Romania is pretty lose on piracy law too? hosting a server from there can be good, but i dunno any..
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You'd also have to consider our route to the server lah, no point 100mps connection if our average download is too little
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QUOTE(Diligent Sloth @ Mar 3 2007, 09:06 PM)
You'd also have to consider our route to the server lah, no point 100mps connection if our average download is too little
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why only Malaysia's connection like this ah? doh.gif
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anyone here had any experience with fdcservers.net?
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post Mar 6 2007, 01:26 PM

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IMPORTANT NOTICE: *All Payments To FDCservers.net LLC Are Non-Refundable

The following are considered violations of FDCservers.net AUP (acceptable use policy)
1. Illegal use: FDCservers.net LLC's services may not be used for illegal purposes, or in support of illegal activities. FDCservers.net LLC reserves the right to cooperate with legal authorities and/or injured third parties in the investigation of any suspected crime or civil wrongdoing.

2. Threats: Use of the FDCservers.net LLC service to transmit any material (by e-mail, uploading, posting or otherwise) that threatens or encourages bodily harm or destruction of property.

3. Harassment: Use of the FDCservers.net LLC service to transmit any material (by e-mail, uploading, posting or otherwise) that harasses another.

4. Forgery or impersonation: Adding, removing or modifying identifying network header information in an effort to deceive or mislead is prohibited. Attempting to impersonate any person by using forged headers or other identifying infrmation is prohibited. The use of anonymous remailers or nicknames does not constitute impersonation.

5. Fraudulent activity: Use of FDCservers.net LLC service to make fraudulent offers to sell or buy products, items, or services, or to advance any type of financial scam such as "pyramid schemes" and "chain letters."

6. Unsolicited commercial e-mail / Unsolicited bulk e-mail (SPAM) Use of the FDCservers.net LLC service to transmit any unsolicited commercial or unsolicited bulk e-mail is expressly prohibited. Violations of this type will result in the immediate termination of the offending FDCservers.net LLC account.

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Anyone hosting websites or services on their server that support spammers or cause any of our IP space to be listed in any of the various Spam Databases will have their server immediately removed from our network. The server will not be reconnected until such time that you agree to remove ANY and ALL traces of the offending material immediately upon reconnection and agree to allow us access to the server to confirm that all material has been COMPLETELY removed. Severe violations may result in immediate and permanent removal of the server from our network without notice to the customer. Any server guilty of a second violation WILL be immediately and permanently removed from our network without notice.

7. E-mail / News Bombing: Malicious intent to impede another person's use of electronic mail services or news will result in the immediate termination of the offending FDCservers.net LLC account.

8. E-mail / Message Forging: Forging any message header, in part or whole, of any electronic transmission, originating or passing through the FDCservers.net LLC service is in violation of this AUP.

9. Usenet SPAMing: FDCservers.net LLC has a zero tolerance policy for the use of its network for the posting of messages or commercial advertisements, which violate the rules, regulations, FAQ or charter of any newsgroups or mailing list. Commercial messages that are appropriate under the rules of a newsgroup or mailing list or that are solicited by the recipients are permitted.

10. Unauthorized access: Use of the FDCservers.net LLC service to access, or to attempt to access, the accounts of others, or to penetrate, or attempt to penetrate, security measures of FDCservers.net LLC's or another entity's computer software or hardware, electronic communications system, or telecommunications system, whether or not the intrusion results in the corruption or loss of data, is expressly prohibited and the offending FDCservers.net LLC account is subject to immediate termination.

11. Copyright or trademark infringement: Use of the FDCservers.net LLC service to transmit any material (by e-mail, uploading, posting or otherwise) that infringes any copyright, trademark, patent, trade secret or other proprietary rights of any third party, including, but not limited to, the unauthorized copying of copyrighted material, the digitization and distribution of photographs from magazines, books, or other copyrighted sources, and the unauthorized transmittal of copyrighted software.

12. Collection of personal data: Use of the FDCservers.net LLC service to collect, or attempt to collect, personal information about third parties without their knowledge or consent.

13. Network disruptions and unfriendly activity: Use of the FDCservers.net LLC service for any activity which affects the ability of other people or systems to use FDCservers.net LLC Services or the Internet. This includes "denial of service" (DOS) attacks against another network host or individual user. Interference with or disruption of other network users, services or equipment is prohibited. It is the Member's responsibility to ensure that their network is configured in a secure manner. A Subscriber may not, through action or inaction, allow others to use their network for illegal or inappropriate actions. A Subscriber may not permit their network, through action or inaction, to be configured in such a way that gives a third party the capability to use their network in an illegal or inappropriate manner. Unauthorized entry and/or use of another company and/or individual's computer system will result in immediate account termination. FDCservers.net LLC will not tolerate any subscriber attempting to access the accounts of others, or penetrate security measures of other systems, whether or not the intrusion results in corruption or loss of data.

14. Fraud: Involves a knowing misrepresentation or misleading statement, writing or activity made with the intent that the person receiving it will act upon it.

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19. IRC networks: IRC is allowed only on our separate IRC network that was designated by FDCservers.net LLC for such a use. Clints found running IRC on our standard network will have their servers disconnected untill they agree to be moved to IRC network.

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I've highlighted 2-3 items you should look at in the AUP
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post Mar 6 2007, 01:26 PM

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QUOTE(Diligent Sloth @ Mar 3 2007, 09:06 PM)
You'd also have to consider our route to the server lah, no point 100mps connection if our average download is too little
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How about hosts in either HK, Japan or Taiwan? The routes should be pretty direct, but it's a pity, since I don't read either Chinese nor Japanese.

A quick hit of Google brought up the following:

http://servers.digitaldaze.com/accounts/overview.html

Will add more to the list once I unearth any.

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You can count out Hongkong, anti piracy laws extremely strict there
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maybe also look for sweden base server if possible

there, dapayratbei server are located
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post Mar 7 2007, 11:26 PM

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Took me 15 seconds to figure out what kitsuna was referring to.

DaPayratBei indeed. Nice one!
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Swedish servers generally have good backbone links to the rest of the internet, not a bad choice if I may say so myself
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post Mar 8 2007, 09:11 AM

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To be honest, i've now got 4 TF servers running from different locations. 2 from HK, 1 from SG, 1 from US. All 4 hosts have pretty strict AUP, 1 even has a clause that specifically bans TF-type software. All shared hosting-type accounts, very cheap, about RM10 a month.

All have been running smoothly for the past month almost.

I'm sure these people monitor their servers: CPU, bandwidth, network utilization, script usage, etc, etc.

So either 2 things have happened:

1. They do not notice my TF installations (therefore they are not doing anything about it)

or

2. They notice, but just dont care because i'm not causing any trouble (not using excessive bwidth, cpu, resources.)

With 4 accounts spread across the world, i've got 6gb of storage and more than 100gb of combined bandwidth per month. That's more than enough for an average user. Total cost: <RM40 a month.

Ftp downloads for 80-120kbps.

If one of them shut me down, so what, i pay on a month to month basis anyways, its so cheap, and finding a host is so-so easy. Within a day i'd have replaced the account i lost, at virtually no additional cost to me.

So in summary: who cares what the AUP says. Do as you like, and if they shut you down, just say sorry, feign ignorance, and move to the next host.
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ermm, i really like to know how to set my own test server.. but im clueless whatsoever..sifus care to share guides or links to where i can learn this?
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How to test? Just run a connection to the server... and see it works, you'd prolly want to open up port 1194 on your server
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just installed the openpvn software, now i dunno how to set my own connection to server lol, do the server here means my own pc or i have to rent or lease another server?
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post Mar 12 2007, 11:15 AM

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You have a hypnotic avatar, waklu.

Anyhoo, I think you just installed the OVPN client on your local machine, right? The next step involves installation on a server. You do have a server, don't you?
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QUOTE(mediumsliced @ Mar 12 2007, 11:15 AM)
You have a hypnotic avatar, waklu.
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Actually the avatar is doing the TaiChi move called 'Wave hands in Clouds'. rclxms.gif
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Very interesting discussion here. Here's my two cents:

1. Dedicated Servers
a) Leaseweb is good if you want to use it as seed box to international P2P sites but for VPN, probably not so good since TM routing to Europe is by going to UK then US then EU. If you do go with this, then go for 10mbps dedicated if no budget, but if money no problem then go for 100mbps dedicated.
b) Server4u - cheap and good, with location either in USA or EU
c) fdcservers - probably a better choice if you looking to host outside malaysia. personall experience, they have tip top service and quite fast respond in rebooting, reinstall. Actually my VPN is now in operation and running very very fast, probably serving 9-15TB a month. Btw, VPN is not illegal, why are u guys talking about legal or not legal when what you are doing is probably use VPN as gateway only.
d) if not for the price, the best VPN should be locally hosted in TMNET datacenter, with TMNET IP. Malaysia has no MPAA or RIAA or whatever A agreement but the price is way high for a dedicated server. Shinjiru got a good rate compares to others. I probably be testing their servers later this month for uploading purposes.

If you looking for cheap and personal use, just subscribe to my vpn services or a few others currently available.

if you looking for more information, www.webhostingtalk.com probably best place to search for an answer.

Now back to the topic, Setting Up Your Own OpenVPN, you need to get a separate server to do this and this server can be anywhere on earth except your own pc at home, with the best choice in Malaysia if money no problem.

If for personal use and you dont want to share, then get a VDS which probably cost you less than RM80 a month with 1-2TB traffic else you can subscribe to vpn services and pay between 25-50 a month.

If you do go for VDS, then there is no need to install OpenVPN, just install socks4/4a/5 proxy and you are done. I don't quite understand why the hypes on vpn when actually socks can do the job without vpn. It takes 2 minutes to install socks server.

If you have less than 5 persons, just install socks proxy will do to block TMNET from blocking you.

I would probably go for socks server if there is a better managed socks server out there and forget about vpn.

Installing and configuring OpenVPN is quite straight forward if you are network savvy. OpenVPN Howto is one of the best resources.

Read guidelines in openssl and openssh as well.

Again, if you are willing to spend probably more than RM600 a month and put in effort to manage and admin the VPN server, then you can install OpenVPN, or just pay between RM25-50 and forget about installing your own VPN.

As to why Malaysia is the best choice, that is another topic and btw, local private torrent site like bolehbit.net also can help you maximise your tm streamyx.

And please dont install client OVPN first without knowing where the server is.


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QUOTE(wKkaY @ Mar 2 2007, 11:58 AM)
With Leaseweb, I can personally vouch that they're unmetered (at about $600-700/month per server for 100Mbps). A website I know pushes out in total about 2.4Gbps across 26 servers for well over half the day, every day, for that amount. Although Leaseweb isn't particularly happy about that, they honour it smile.gif

If you do go down this path, make sure you get the nForce-based dedicated servers, vs the VIA-based ones, as you lose about 5-10Mbps throughput with the VIA Rhine NIC (from our testing).
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Is that EUROS or Ringgit Malaysia?
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EURO, have a look at http://www.leaseweb.com/index.php?p=dedicatedflatfee
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Of course, its on a shared pipe with the 100mpbs being burstable, on average you can expect anywhere from 10-35mbps average
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is this specs of dedicated server good enuff??
it's from fscservers.net....

Standard Server #2
AMD Sempron 2400
1GB RAM
2x80GB HDD or 1x200GB
100Mbit port - full duplex
Unmetered transfer
setup time - within 8 hours

FREE SETUP - $149/month
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Yep, its good enough smile.gif

 

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