jcaleb
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The invention of E5 made many host generous of ram. is ram cheap for e5?
Reserving Disk Space you Purchased from the Oversold VPS providers
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jarland
The ocean is digital
ECC memory is crazy expensive. A lot of server vendors seem to get better deals on them and pass it along if you build a full system with them. I may not be looking at the best places since we don't colo anything at the moment though, but everything I see is pretty outrageous if you were to compare to the cost of desktop memory.
Overselling disk space is also possible with KVM by thin provisioning your storage arrays. Of course, providers here are not doing it, as all of us are simply using traditional LVMs. However one company that does it is Digital Ocean. So I think that this tutorial would apply to them as well.
jcaleb
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How much would a dual e5 with 128gb cost?
That depends on a lot of factors. I would say starting from 500 Eur and going up.
Ours cost some 1000 but are supermicro blades. With disks, raid with bbu and all, would be about 2 k.
jarland
The ocean is digital
Alone on websites that a consumer might tend to look, the memory alone (ECC) could be up to $2,000. Seems a lot of server specific shops get better deals. Bunch of them here: http://www.webhostingtalk.com/wiki/Server_Builders
wdq
Quade
Last I checked the E5's start at around $500 a piece. A motherboard for the dual processors is another $500. Sixteen 8GB sticks of registered ECC memory would be $70/stick.
Put all that together and you're looking at about $2600 excluding the hard drives, extension cards, and chassis.
Put all that together and you're looking at about $2600 excluding the hard drives, extension cards, and chassis.
@wdq not that long ago I was looking into building SSD cached servers running KVM for the low end market. The builds were based on a single Core i7 3820, Supermicro or ASUS motherboard, 64GB non-registered DDR3, 6 x 2TB drives, 2 x 256GB SSDs, LSI RAID card, CacheCade Pro 2.0 and so on. Each build would have been around $3200. When we're talking a proper dual Xeon E5, registered DDR3 and so on, the price can climb really fast to $5000/$6000 per node. Of course if build properly a single E5 server is much better value than two of those i7 3820 servers, which isn't even 100% server grade hardware. Needless to say that I've killed the idea pretty fast.
You can buy them second hand for as low as 500 Eur.
But you can also get good deals on new ones if you buy special blades in a 3u case, without disks, for the FC setups. Only the board and cpus are some 1000+ eur, added some fc card, redundant psu and all that add to each blade, for some 6 of them in a 3u you end up paying close to 2000 Eur per piece.
Special price for old customer. No raid cards, no drives at all. Without taxes too
But you can also get good deals on new ones if you buy special blades in a 3u case, without disks, for the FC setups. Only the board and cpus are some 1000+ eur, added some fc card, redundant psu and all that add to each blade, for some 6 of them in a 3u you end up paying close to 2000 Eur per piece.
Special price for old customer. No raid cards, no drives at all. Without taxes too
drmike
100% Tier-1 Gogent
Well, no offense to QPS, but the L5420's are out there for a song these days. $150-300 depending. Might need to put the harddrive on top of that and still in the $200-400 range, maximum. ROI on a $50 plan could be 6 months on the low side.
That's why the 5420's and similar series are so darn popular. Nothing wrong with them. I buy them myself.
I question why folks go the $50/mo route when buying this isn't much.
When it comes to $2k+ servers, yeah, renting dedicated units is all the rage.
L5420's are still pretty decent machines. I have 1 at WSI for my MC server. I also have a dual X5355 server doing media encoding and it handles it pretty darn well.
wlanboy
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In opposite of some other really small dedicated servers.
Code:
#!/bin/sh
currentdisk=$(df -h | tail -n 2 | head -n 1 | awk '{print $4}' | awk -F"G" '{print $1}')
if (( $(echo $currentdisk) < 10 )); then
/bin/echo "$(hostname) is almost out of disk space" | /bin/mail -s "$(hostname) CHECK DISK SPACE" [email protected]
fiAbove script will email server admin when a Node has less than 10GB of available disk space left. Put it to hourly cron and that's it, will definitely come handy if you are overselling disk space.
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