kimsufi and online.net are both in france, but not same company. just lots of big datacenters in france, germany, and NL. digicube.fr is really cheap as well. a place called oneprovider is online.net's reseller, they have some decent deals on there also (paris location)
i prefer hetzner to kimsufi/ovh/online.net, though. in general, you'll be able to find the better servers on hetzner for cheaper than they are listed on ovh or online.net, as long as you use the robot auctions (no setup fees)
re: this online.net 1.99 euro dedicated server, is actually on a slightly faster CPU than the kimsufi 4.99, but they still both are horrible. it has 160GB of space vs 500GB. it's on a '1gbps port', but, well, I'm sure a lot of people will be sharing it.
for 2 euro though, i'll give it a try. the first month was actually pro-rated to like .60 euro, but, er, i haven't read their ToS yet in regard to cancellation policy... so dunno if i'll have to pay at least .60 + 2 or just .60.
I'll read the site thoroughly, and make sure there is no catch. I have now a high end dedicated server that I want to get rid of as it cost over €70 per month.
What I look for is a dedicated server with a non-shared connection with atleast 1gb/s network speed and unmetered data.
Well, a dedicated 1gb/s line would cost a fortune. I've always been able to get up to 100MB/s on my Hetzner when needed, but I think I must be lucky on who I'm sharing my port with.... though I've had 3 diff servers from them & never had a problem with at least 40MB/s. Oneprovider resells some online.net stuff, and I always got at least 30MB/s with those. Probably the same with online.net.
My server got setup in 9 1/2 minutes, but I'm still installing Ubuntu on it... from what other people have posted:
CPU model : VIA Nano processor U2250 (1.6GHz Capable)
Number of cores : 1
CPU frequency : 1595.824 MHz
Total amount of ram : 1980 MB
Total amount of swap : 975 MB
System uptime : 1 min,
Download speed from CacheFly: 56.2MB/s
Download speed from Coloat, Atlanta GA: 4.23MB/s
Download speed from Softlayer, Dallas, TX: 6.43MB/s
Download speed from Linode, Tokyo, JP: 3.31MB/s
Download speed from i3d.net, Rotterdam, NL: 40.6MB/s
Download speed from Leaseweb, Haarlem, NL: 48.5MB/s
Download speed from Softlayer, Singapore: 3.24MB/s
Download speed from Softlayer, Seattle, WA: 5.32MB/s
Download speed from Softlayer, San Jose, CA: 5.00MB/s
Download speed from Softlayer, Washington, DC: 9.92MB/s
I/O speed : 75.9 MB/s
root@online:~# wget freevps.us/downloads/bench.sh -O - -o /dev/null|bash
CPU model : VIA Nano processor U2250 (1.6GHz Capable)
Number of cores : 1
CPU frequency : 1595.843 MHz
Total amount of ram : 1993 MB
Total amount of swap : 3813 MB
System uptime : 12 min,
Download speed from CacheFly: 50.0MB/s
Download speed from Coloat, Atlanta GA: 3.79MB/s
Download speed from Softlayer, Dallas, TX: 3.26MB/s
Download speed from Linode, Tokyo, JP: 1.55MB/s
Download speed from i3d.net, Rotterdam, NL: 21.1MB/s
Download speed from Leaseweb, Haarlem, NL: 26.8MB/s
Download speed from Softlayer, Singapore: 1.56MB/s
Download speed from Softlayer, Seattle, WA: 2.53MB/s
Download speed from Softlayer, San Jose, CA: 2.57MB/s
Download speed from Softlayer, Washington, DC: 4.37MB/s
I/O speed : 72.1 MB/s