TheRaven64's Journal: Anyone know of a cheap dedicated hosting company?

My current hosting company wants to put their prices up. I currently have a Mac Mini running OpenBSD colocated with them. I am looking to move, and have the following minimum needs:

• 1GHz CPU,
• 512MB of RAM,
• 1IP,
• 50GB/month of transfer,
• OpenBSD or FreeBSD.

I am flexible in terms of storage space; I currently have an 80GB disk, but I'm using less than 5GB of it. I'd like to start using a bit more, but not having more bandwidth makes this difficult.

Can anyone recommend a hosting company that would offer this kind of set-up for under about $50/month? DedicatedNow seemed like they had a reasonable offer, but they had some quite unreasonable demands, such as needing a copy of my passport faxed to them to complete the transaction (and I don't do that for any business, particularly not one I have had no prior dealings with).

In unrelated news, it looks like I'm getting a Google-sponsored minion for the summer. The SoC results were announced this morning, and the project I am mentoring got accepted. Should be fun.

Yikes.

[SatanicPuppy]

I don't know anyone who hosts for less than 100 per month...Looking at your requirements though, I wonder that you don't just set up a server at your house/office.

As little bandwidth as you need, you could probably work with a basic high speed internet connection, as long as your provider was willing to provide a static IP...Or you could go with something like dyndns.com, and work with a dynamic ip. I guess it all depends on yer location.

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[TheRaven64]

Bandwidth in the UK is very expensive (it's not bad for downstream, but upstream is ludicrous), which is why I had a server hosted in the US. ServerPronto seems to have a deal for $30/month that is more than I need, but I have heard some really bad things about them.