Personal Dedicated Servers

Personal Dedicated Servers were an experimental alternative to VPS accounts that C9WS ran in a trial period from Summer 2009 to 2010. We experienced a high volume of requests for information upon their announcement from interested buyers, however few of these people ended up actually ordering them. Furthermore, due to the wild fluctuation on the price of Intel Atom chips, it wasn’t feasible to keep offering these servers. We had to change the price for new signups practically biweekly just to recover the cost of the server components and therefore maintain about thirty different pricing schemes.

The below information is archived. Anyone who currently has a PDS from CloudNine will continue to receive service, however we are no longer offering new PDS signups. This was an interesting experiment and we feel that the PDS unit from a hardware standpoint was a cheap and capable little server. We’d love to bring these back in the future when demand and Intel bulk pricing permit it.

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PDSes are new to the C9 line, and are designed as an alternative to a VPS account. They are small, low power dedicated servers which are priced about like a VPS, but offer much greater flexibility. We currently offer only two configurations, but hope to offer more in the future.

Our PDS machines come with Ubuntu Server by default, with no control panel pre-installed.

We are of course able to install CentOS, Fedora, or any other Linux distro you like. It’s your choice.

We will install VHCS, an open source CP, at no charge, if you’d like.

We are currently not able to sell cPanel licenses for PDS servers, however you are free to subscribe to a cPanel license independently and install cPanel yourself. (It’s pretty easy, there’s an installer.)

We are currently not able to sell Windows Server licenses, however, should you wish to install Windows Server 2008, you’re more than welcome to do a network install. Alternatively we can accept VMWare virtual disk files over SFTP and image it onto a physical partition for you.

PDS “Rain” – ($26.99 / Month)
Intel Atom 230 1.6GHz
768MB DDR2 533
80GB Western Digital HDD

PDS “Snow” – ($38.99 / Month)
Intel Atom 330 1.6GHz Dual Core
1536MB DDR2 667
160GB Western Digital HDD

All PDS configurations come with 300GB of bandwidth by default, and are measured under the standard C9 biweekly bandwidth system. That is to say, you’ll get 300GB of bandwidth every two weeks. Need more? Contact support for a quote.