HiHo, because I switched to my own servers in colocation, I canceled some rented ones. These were all Supermicro blades 8c Opteron, 2 hd's and BMC (IPMI). https://www.supermicro.com/Aplus/system/3U/3012/AS-3012MA-H12TRF.cfm SSD: Samsung (840,850,860) EVO, SATA: WD Enterprice (WDC_WD1003FBYX)
They're relatively cheap. 16 EUR + 8 EUR per 16GB RAM. So server with 16GB RAM = 24 EUR/month or 32GB = 32 EUR/month. The 16GB are more than enough for 2 Tor instances! I still operated Monero mining on 4 CPU cores.
Currently there is a 10% discount (permanent) and all servers with unmetered unlimited traffic (1000 Mbit). All with no setup fee. https://servdiscount.com/ The same applies to the new servers https://www.webtropia.com/ You can rent the servers prepaid or with a term of 1,3,6,... months/notice period.
Hints: If you set up a customer account beforehand, you can upload your SSH keys for server setup. When setting up, select Raid1 (mdraid on Linux) directly.
If you have any questions, please write to me personally. German or English.
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