How do Hybrid Servers compare to our competitors’ dedicated servers? | Heart Internet Blog – Focusing on all aspects of the web

Hybrid Servers are genuinely an amazing product, and we are currently the only web host in the UK offering Hybrid Servers to our customers.  Using a mixture of dedicated hard disks (with industry-leading SAS disks), guaranteed RAM and super low vCPU contention rates, they are seriously powerful, and seriously cheap.

The pudding

But that is all very easy for us to say and the proof as they say, is in the pudding. So here is the pudding. The table below compares the dedicated servers from other UK web hosts that have the closest price as our entry level Hybrid Server, the HS 100. We’ve ignored short term price promotions because you won’t be paying that price in 3 months or so time.

Heart Internet

 

 

Fasthosts

 

 

1and1

 

 

UK2

 

 

Namesco

 

 

 

Product name

 

 

HS 100

 

 

DS710i

 

 

Server L4i

 

 

UK200

 

 

NCOM I

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Price per month

£59.99

 

£59.00

 

£59.99

 

£49.00

 

£199.99

 

CPU cores

6

 

4

 

4

 

2

 

4

 

Hard Disk HDD

2 x 1TB SAS

 

2 x 1TB SATA

 

2 x 1TB SATA

 

500GB

 

2 x 500GB SATA

 

Memory (RAM)

20GB

 

8GB

 

12GB

 

2 x 2GB

 

8GB

 

RAID

Hardware RAID 1

 

Software RAID 1

 

Software RAID 1

 

No

 

Hardware RAID 1

 

100% UK support

Yes

 

No

 

No

 

No

 

No

 

This article gives a great break down of why SAS disks are better than SATA. And this article explains why Hardware RAID is better than Software RAID.

If you are looking for great value server hosting that doesn’t compromises on power, you’re looking for a Hybrid Server.

 

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