[olug] Cox Business Pricing

[Luke-Jr]

On Wednesday 10 March 2010 08:16:45 pm Will Langford wrote:
> > Xen/KVM emulate hardware to varying degrees, so also have significant
> > overhead
> > that makes them unsuitable if you want fast response times (latency;
> > especially important for game servers). OpenVZ, on the other hand,
> > doesn't have any of this overhead (it doesn't emulate *anything*). I
> > tried a Xen VPS
> > once, and decided I'm sticking with OpenVZ. :)
> 
> For game servers ? Does $30 a month really hurt that bad for a dedicated
> tiny box from some provider ? :)

I think you missed the part about me hosting VPS... and why spend more when 
you don't need to?

> Game servers on a VPS is haphazard at best in the year or so I've fiddled
> with VPS & dedicated at the same time (re: zdaemon/doom servers).

Maybe Xen or otherwise oversold VPS... but there's no problem on OpenVZ.