I was lucky enough to spot an offer from Online.Net (OVH's main competitor in France) a couple of weeks ago with some old blade servers being sold virtually at cost. This offer has now closed. There is a thread over at LowEndBox.

Specs are:

• Dell DCS Blade system
• VIA Nano U2250 CPU (1 core @1.6 Ghz x64)
• 2GB of RAM
• 160GB HDD
• Gigabit connectivity (no bandwidth guarantee)
• 100GB FTP backup space in separate datacentre (can mount this for more data storage space if required)
• 1 IPv4 per server + /48 IPv6 per account

Joodle of the 'Install Windows Image onto Kimsufi Servers' fame also found that his Win8/2012R2 images installed just fine on the Online.Net boxes too. Unfortunately the Intel Drivers for these NICs are not included with Windows 7 or 2008R2 so those images do not work.

I ended up buying two, and am currently running two seedboxes for €4/mo which are pumping out huge amounts of ratio.

Unfortunately the CPU is quite underpowered by does okay for a seedbox. It does struggle with RDP and for the fact it is half a world away from me.

Anyone else get some of these? I am hearing that rTottent + ruTorrent on these simply fly.

ya, i was lucky enough to grab one, should have grabbed a few more.
as a seedbox, it is great. simple and easy. the cpu does crap out if u run it too much (un-rar large items)
currently using it for what it is

Originally Posted by mmanuk

ya, i was lucky enough to grab one, should have grabbed a few more.
as a seedbox, it is great. simple and easy. the cpu does crap out if u run it too much (un-rar large items)
currently using it for what it is

Missed it by a few hours though . The server aint that good imho. Lacks the agility of a kimsufi Atom. The Gigabit speeds are an eyewash and support a lil shaky.

Originally Posted by hondacity

Missed it by a few hours though . The server aint that good imho. Lacks the agility of a kimsufi Atom. The Gigabit speeds are an eyewash and support a lil shaky.

online.net support is pretty much useless but the speed is good for what i use it for. mostly music trackers and tv trackers.
for $3 a month, cant go wrong.

Oh, I missed it! Is it a real Gigabit connection?
The capacity is not the best but I would like to have a Gigabit connection.