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The following blog post is about a German hosting provider, and written in German.

Netcup vermietet keine virtuellen Server, sondern “logische Serverpartitionen“. Eine an sich völlig stabile und eprobte Technik aus der Zeit der Mainframes, an der es bis auf Kleinigkeiten nichts auszusetzen gibt. Wenn man denn soetwas wollte.

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Yesterday I’ve switched my workstation off. Happily, I must add, as all the data from a former webserver has been successfully transferred to my SheevaPlug. In a minute or two, after something to eat, I wanted to commit that modified paper of mine – but nada! The PSU has died. Again (the last time was last December). So I currently have only my headless miniature server, a PDA and four harddrives along with a RAID card and my notebook, in which the former don’t fit in.

In case you didn’t know, today is German Unification Day and no store has opened. Great.
And yes, I have backups. And spare parts, but no additional PSU.

After reading an article at Xonio’s about SMS prices in Europe I’ve decided to do my own research. After hitting on the European mobile phone providers’ homepages and doing some math, here are my results (data from today!):

Not only did I list all the fees of the various tariffs as sum, with putting that in scale with GDP you can see how a particular price “feels like” to the country’s population.

Definitely overpriced are text messages / SMS (in average!)  in Bulgaria, Estonia, Austria and Italy followed by Germany. Interestingly the countries with cheap sms fees are those in which mostly the ‘big players’ have to face local competitors.

What’s the rate in your Country? How much do you pay for your mobile messages?

Tags: economics, mobile, telecommunication

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