Ladies and gentlemen: the moment has come! The votes have been counted, the results have been checked, and the winners have sent in the offers. The results for the Top Provider Poll 2013-Q4 are finally here! First of all, let me all thank you very much for voting! The quarterly provider poll is a fun event in which we can all show some appreciation to the hosts we like the most. It’s been an on-going tradition and it always brings me great joy that so many of you vote. So, thank you again! This poll was different than the last ones. Previously, you got to pick a number 1, number 2, and number 3 provider. These providers were awarded points accordingly: each number 1 vote earned the provider 3 points, each number 2 vote earned the provider 2 points, and each number 3 vote earned the provider 1 point. Unfair, thought I. You should be able to divide those points yourself! Because of that, each member got 5 votes to distribute amongst providers as they wished. Basically like dot-voting without the stickies and the whiteboard. Some gave a provider 5 points, others distributed them amongst providers. All in all, a nice, flexible, and honest system. I’m going to continue with this in the future! So, on to the results. By popular demand, I have listed the top 10 right here! Most of the hosts have sent in a special offers to share their love with the LowEndCommunity. Enjoy these offers while you can, because some are limited either by quantity…
Skylar, from Crissic Solutions, has sent in three special offers for LowEndBox, located in Jacksonville, Florida run completely off their own equipment! 512MB RAM 512MB RAM 512MB vSwap 3 vCPU cores 50GB Disk 2TB Bandwidth 1Gbit port OpenVZ/SolusVM 2 IPv4 Up to 200 IPv6 Price -$15/year Order here 1GB RAM 1GB RAM 1GB vSwap 4 vCPU cores 75GB Disk 3TB Bandwidth 1Gbit port OpenVZ/SolusVM 2 IPv4 Up to 200 IPv6 Price -$4/Month Order here 2GB RAM 2GB RAM 2GB vSwap 4 vCPU cores 100GB Disk 4TB Bandwidth 1Gbit port OpenVZ/SolusVM 2 IPv4 Up to 200 IPv6 Price – $7/Month Order here What’s new in this offer, compared to last time, is that Skylar notes “The feedback has been loud and clear. You love our prices, but you want better drive performance, and lower load issues associated with IO Wait. You asked, we answered! All new nodes are provisioned with Dual X5660 CPU’s (Hex Core 2.80Ghz CPU’s), 96GB of Memory, and 12 (yes TWELVE) Western Digital RE4′s on a hardware raid card Dell H700. This will be our primary node setup moving forward. Existing client nodes will be upgraded over the next 3-6 months.” This improves their DiskIO from 70Mbps to a whopping 500Mbps, theserverbear benchmark confirms it. That’s a Merry Christmas from Skylar! Network Information Florida (GoRack): Test Information: http://lg.crissic.net Test IPv4: 162.218.208.13 Test IPv6: 2602:ffea:a::dead:beef Test File: http://lg.crissic.net/1GB.test
