Hi,
I just wanted to let you know that a french company named Iliad [1] just launched yesterday a new offer called dedibox [2].
For 29.99EUR "without the taxes" (about 38USD according to www.xe.com) per month you can rent a dedicated server containing: - CPU: VIA C7 2GHz - RAM: 1GB - HDD: SATA 160GB - BW: 100Mbps - Unlimited Traffic
Oh wait... I'm pretty sure you're starting to ask my message is a spam ? :) In fact, the other interesting thing is that you can choose the OS you wish to install: - DediboxOS (based on ubuntu) - Ubuntu-server - Debian Sarge - Fedora Core 5
Since this offer is pretty new, the choice is very limited for now. But I talked on IRC to one of the guys working at dedibox after I read this page: http://assistance.dedibox.fr/documentation/doku.php?id=commercial:lancement
This is in French but if you read the part "Disponibilité des services" you'll see the other distros that will be available in the (near?) future. Then I asked the guy about the "RedHat" that is written there and asked him if they plan to use old Redhat's release or RHEL (or any clone) and he answered me: RH9 and *CentOS*.
I know most of the users on this mailing-list doesn't really care about this since this offer only targets people living in France but since I really enjoy working with CentOS, I thought some here may think it is a good news that a hosting service will be offering CentOS to his customers.
Given the price of this offer, there is a huge amount of people that subscribes to their services... I'm pretty sure some people will discover OpenSource Operating-Systems and especially CentOS (when it'll be available) and will try it and love it.
Regards, Gilles.
Note: I'm not affiliated to dedibox and this mail really is not a spam or an ad message but just an "happiness" message, trust me :).
BTW, please excuse my english...
[1] - http://iliad.fr/ [2] - http://dedibox.fr/