up 117 days

Very cool. Small but very mighty.

You mentioned 70mbps download, but what is your upload bandwidth? It’s often surprisingly terrible.

After a month of terrible internet connectivity, I noticed issues occurring when a particular device was turned on. After investigation, I spotted the issue was being caused by Microsoft OneDrive saturating my upload bandwidth. The issue caused problems with download and upload on all devices connected to the network.

People and ISP marketing focus on downloads but in reality it’s important to focus on upload to the same degree as download.

Many years ago I built my own 1u server, built on consumer parts, I filled it with drives and memory. Co-location costs including tax was £56 per month, cheapest available in the country at the time. Other costs I didn’t account for were gaining access to the machine to fix or upgrade parts, driving to the data centre.

Generally it was good experience, satisfying having almost total control over my platform. Do it for the experience.

But Hetzner is difficult to beat for overall value.