On 12/30/2012 08:56 PM, Ravi Kumar wrote:
On Sun, Dec 30, 2012 at 6:16 PM, Vivek Kapoor <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:I can highly recommend E2E Networks http://e2enetworks.com if you are open to cloud hosting. They've their servers in India, and hence have excellent connectivity, low latency, and works well even if the international bandwidth is choked of your isp. Also, they've a technically competent staff; in fact it's being run by Tarun Dua who's also a member on this list. Price seems too high. I am paying 26 euro (less than INR 1900) per month for a hardware which has 8 GB RAM, 2 HDD with 1 TB each (so I can use soft-raid), dual core AMD processor. This is not cloud.
I've found E2E's price very competitive, near comparable to other cloud hosting providers, especially considering that they've servers in India. Bandwidth in India is still very expensive.
Not being in a cloud has a disadvantage that you've to take care of your hardware yourselves. I've had servers in the similar cost range as yours, but these are usually very old servers and I've not found their performance to be satisfactory. Though if it's just for personal use, then maybe that suits, as it did for me for quite some time. I'm also hosting with Rackspace Cloud (3 instances) & Hivelocity (2 dedicated servers), and I see that being outside India will always have its benefits on the cost front.
On the other hand, being in India maybe slightly expensive, but it has its advantages as far as network connectivity is concerned. I had purchased a 1U rack server and co-located it in a Noida facility, and later moved to E2E's Cloud instance. In both cases, I've had a latency of between 20ms to 80ms and working over ssh seems that you're working on a local machine. Same goes for response times when you load your website in the browser - it's near instantaneous. The best part however is that it isn't affected by the international connectivity, which means if some under-sea cable fault happens, or say Bharti or Tata are facing temporary bandwidth issues, at least your server would perform well.
Regards Vivek Kapoor http://exain.com _______________________________________________ Ilugd mailing list [email protected] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
