<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>hosay123</author><text>The other responses to this have been woefully speculative at best, plain wrong in others. The short answer is to rent one for a month and benchmark your particular application.&lt;p&gt;I was surprised to discover that with a workload composed entirely of XML parsing using Python+lxml, an OVH 1.8ghz Atom N2800 beat hands down my mid-2010 2.4ghz Macbook Pro. This isn&amp;#x27;t a crazy result either. For instance, while the Macbook is equipped with dual cores, each core supports only one hardware thread, and thus is blocked while waiting to complete a load from RAM (a common occurrence when dealing with giant cache-unfriendly DOM trees that don&amp;#x27;t benefit from the Core 2&amp;#x27;s much increased L2).&lt;p&gt;In contrast the N2800 has 2 cores with 2 hardware threads each (hyperthreading), so each core can progress while its buddy thread is stalled. In my particular workload this was enough to beat by a significant margin a much faster, expensive and power-hungry processor.</text><parent_chain><item><author>bravura</author><text>For the benefit of those of us who don&amp;#x27;t know much about Atom, could you explain what the limitations are of using Atom for webserving?</text></item><item><author>ck2</author><text>Note these are atom based.&lt;p&gt;But I bet nginx could still crank out static files from them.&lt;p&gt;Translation: &lt;a href=&quot;http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&amp;amp;tl=en&amp;amp;js=n&amp;amp;prev=_t&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;amp;&amp;amp;act=url&amp;amp;u=http://forum.ovh.com/showthread.php?t=89592&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;translate.google.com&amp;#x2F;translate?sl=auto&amp;amp;tl=en&amp;amp;js=n&amp;amp;pre...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;    We have 3 servers in the KS series:

    KS-2G ATOM powered with 2G of RAM, 500GB,  100Mbps 2.99e&amp;#x2F;mois.

    KS-4G 4GB of RAM, 2x500GB software raid 9.99e&amp;#x2F;mois 

    KS-16G Core i5 with 16G, VT and 2x1TB 19.99e&amp;#x2F;mois

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3 euros is $4 USD and 20 euros is $26.50 USD&lt;p&gt;They are also on the UK site:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ovh.co.uk/dedicated_servers/kimsufi.xml&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.ovh.co.uk&amp;#x2F;dedicated_servers&amp;#x2F;kimsufi.xml&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;That $26.50 server is currently $40 in the US (CA)&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ovh.com/us/dedicated-servers/kimsufi2.xml&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.ovh.com&amp;#x2F;us&amp;#x2F;dedicated-servers&amp;#x2F;kimsufi2.xml&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;The real deal here IMHO is the i5 for $26.50, that cpu can run laps around the atom and can run in &amp;quot;turbo&amp;quot; mode near 3.5ghz all day.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>OVH launches 2.99€/mo dedicated servers (2G RAM, 500G disk)</title><url>https://www.ovh.co.uk/dedicated_servers/kimsufi.xml</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>txutxu</author><text>If you web application could run ok (for the number of visitors) in a netbook with mechanical disk, then an Atom is ok.&lt;p&gt;Note that I&amp;#x27;ve seen people running gnome on a netbook.&lt;p&gt;Still, I see this, and I think more about: &amp;quot;backups&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;configuration management&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;shell access&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;VPN to other more powerful dedicated servers in OVH&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;personal storage&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;scheduled tasks&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;monitoring systems&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;status pages&amp;quot;, etc...&lt;p&gt;The price is nothing, I still ask myself if it&amp;#x27;s rentable because &amp;quot;it&amp;#x27;s an Atom&amp;quot; and changes the power bill, or this is more a unprofitable product to attract you to other products.&lt;p&gt;Lets say 3€ * 12m = 36€ year, It takes some years to recover the hardware costs (without count electricity bills, company salaries, connectivity, taxes, etc).</text><parent_chain><item><author>bravura</author><text>For the benefit of those of us who don&amp;#x27;t know much about Atom, could you explain what the limitations are of using Atom for webserving?</text></item><item><author>ck2</author><text>Note these are atom based.&lt;p&gt;But I bet nginx could still crank out static files from them.&lt;p&gt;Translation: &lt;a href=&quot;http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&amp;amp;tl=en&amp;amp;js=n&amp;amp;prev=_t&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;amp;&amp;amp;act=url&amp;amp;u=http://forum.ovh.com/showthread.php?t=89592&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;translate.google.com&amp;#x2F;translate?sl=auto&amp;amp;tl=en&amp;amp;js=n&amp;amp;pre...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;    We have 3 servers in the KS series:

    KS-2G ATOM powered with 2G of RAM, 500GB,  100Mbps 2.99e&amp;#x2F;mois.

    KS-4G 4GB of RAM, 2x500GB software raid 9.99e&amp;#x2F;mois 

    KS-16G Core i5 with 16G, VT and 2x1TB 19.99e&amp;#x2F;mois

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3 euros is $4 USD and 20 euros is $26.50 USD&lt;p&gt;They are also on the UK site:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ovh.co.uk/dedicated_servers/kimsufi.xml&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.ovh.co.uk&amp;#x2F;dedicated_servers&amp;#x2F;kimsufi.xml&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;That $26.50 server is currently $40 in the US (CA)&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ovh.com/us/dedicated-servers/kimsufi2.xml&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.ovh.com&amp;#x2F;us&amp;#x2F;dedicated-servers&amp;#x2F;kimsufi2.xml&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;The real deal here IMHO is the i5 for $26.50, that cpu can run laps around the atom and can run in &amp;quot;turbo&amp;quot; mode near 3.5ghz all day.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>OVH launches 2.99€/mo dedicated servers (2G RAM, 500G disk)</title><url>https://www.ovh.co.uk/dedicated_servers/kimsufi.xml</url></story>