im planning to collocate server with ecatel in Amsterdam.but im from india and if i send hardwares from here then it wil cost me alot.so im searching for some vendor who can quote me the price of hardware , they must be based in nether land only.
View 9 RepliesWe have decided to move our current provider because their payment processor problems. They can't charge my credit card directly and wanting to get from PayPal. And paypal is not allowing my country to pay directly but after registering.. We have also registered to Paypal and now there are problems with sending money limits even account is active and verified (card added + verified)
I am really tired of getting suspended while we have money but can't pay. Other payment ways don't fit to me because bank transfers get too high commissions, moneybookers says my limit is 200 euro per 60 days (very low for me)
Are there any providers you know in Netherlands that will give us servers ~80 euros (2gb ram, xeon cpu and 4-5 TB bandwidth) We have 10 servers currently but if these problems didn't occur, we would move all our services to them and get around 30 servers.
By the way my provider's name is E*catel. I love their services, network rocks and support but this problem is forcing me to do this.
I am looking fora netherland dedicated hoster which allows warez and has some quad core server under 130
View 5 Replies View Relateddoes anyone know where i can get Interspire Vendor edition for free. i would prefer someone to host it for me or i can host it my self. If i have to host it my self does anyone know where i can get help for 100 webspace control pannel
View 7 Replies View RelatedI'm new to SSL certificates and the like. I am switching to VPS hosting soon and I would like to buy an SSL certificate to go along with an (Ubercart / Drupal) e-commerce site that I am hosting. I'm looking for a cheap but good one. Does anyone have a recommended vendor / certificate type that would work well for me?
View 7 Replies View RelatedAs stated in the subject. If you want to more specific, it will need to fast to Asean countries
View 13 Replies View RelatedThe following story depicts my experience with www.rackmountsetc.com which is a California-based server vendor. This is the first review that I have done on WHT, so let me know if you like it or no. I might, some day, review the server providers that I have used. This review is unbiased and quite long, I spent a few hours working on it. I hope that you’ll enjoy reading it.
Introduction
In early 2007, I made the decision to buy a server and colocate it, instead of leasing a dedicated server. Part of the problem is the fact that I live in Canada, and although vast and very technologically savvy, there aren’t many server hardware vendors here. When there aren't many players in the market, there is no competitive pricing. My budget was low and I needed a dual-core server which would last me for a while.
The search begins
I spent days on the computer searching for a hardware vendor which satisfied both my price range and quality requirements. I was turned down from various canadian server vendors as they had quoted me thousands of dollars for a mere Intel Core 2 Duo-based server. I knew that finding a vendor based in the United States was a better choice for me. The problem, then, was to find out which company I should pick out of the hundreds available. I asked around and several of my friends recommended me Rackmounts ETC.
As soon as I visited Rackmounts ETC’s website, I was amazed by the pricing and quality of the hardware. I liked the fact that they used Supermicro motherboards and enterprise-quality Western Digital drives. Better yet, it was all affordable. Even better than all of this, for me, is the fact that they ship to Canada. After hearing this, I immediately filed in a quote. Just the curious people out there, I was looking at an Intel Core 2 Duo E6600, 4GB of RAM, and a hardware RAID1 with two 250GB SATA drives.
The next morning, I received an email with the quoted price. The price was around $1600, compared to $2500+ that the other companies wanted. (Disclaimer: Prices have dropped since April. Such a similar machine will probably now cost $1300 or less). I gave them my credit card number and hoped for the best. I promptly received a UPS tracking number and my server was going to be here in about a week (from San Diego, California to Montreal in Quebec). If I’m not mistaking, Rackmounts ETC now delivers any order second day without any additional fees.
The big Supermicro box arrives
A week later, I saw a UPS truck pull over in my street. I ran to the door like a crazy maniac to discover that the driver itself had a hard time lifting up the package. I never knew how big or heavy 1U servers were. I hauled the box to the office to open it up.
I’m a big fan of great packaging. The server was shipped in the original box from Supermicro and had foam all over. Upon opening up the server to inspect it, everything was in tip-top shape and I couldn’t help noticing that the cabling work was superb.
The hardware
This is the part of the review that we’ve been all waiting for.
The case, power supply and motherboard are all from Supermicro. The case is extremely sturdy and the whole system doesn’t feel like it was cheaply assembled. The motherboard is a PDSMI+ and the case is the SC811T-300B. Both a very good combination, but Rackmounts ETC also have many other cases if 4 or more drives are required.
A very sturdy Supermicro heatsink was mounted on top of the CPU and the whole was surrounded by a plastic air shroud to route the air more efficiently through the CPU to cool it. I love the fact that 1U servers efficiently take the cool air from the front and force the hot air to the back. The air shroud also let air through a bit at the bottom, so it was pushing enough cold air to keep the RAM modules cool too. I was surprised that there were no fans on the left side of the case to cool the north bridge and RAID card, but I'm assuming that these don't get very hot.
The hard drives are hot-swappable and are manufactured by Western Digital. It’s also good to know that they’re the Enterprise series, as they have a few optimizations in them to make those drives work better in a RAID environment. In my case, the hard drives that I ordered were the 160GB 16MB Cache WD1600YS drives.
The RAM that was used inside the server was just regular DDR2 non-ECC RAM by SuperTalent (Rackmounts ETC ships ECC RAM on Xeon servers and on any other machine when requested). Upon googling for the brand of memory, I've seen a few negative reviews by other people.
To this day, I'm still a bit mad at myself for not getting ECC. Never the less, SuperTalent has lifetime warranty and they are probably better than the hundreds of unknown brands (and re-branded brands) out there which are being sold in the bargain bins of the local Best Buy stores.
The RAID controller that came with my server was the most inexpensive controller that Rackmounts ETC had. A 3ware Series-8006 2LP 2-port SATA RAID PCI-X card. The down side about this one is that it's not compatible with SATA2, but the performance that I've gotten with this card was absolutely on-par with other RAID1 arrays that I have used in the past.
It might also be a good idea to note at this point that I did not order either an IPMI card, a DVD-ROM neither a floppy drive. These devices aren't useful for me. It seems that Rackmounts ETC is using Sony DVD-Rom drives and Supermicro Floppy drives. I would also judge these brands very high quality and I wouldn't expect having trouble with any of these if I had ordered them. Installing such devices at a later point in the server would also be easily possible. It's just a matter of removing the dummy covers, putting in the cabling for the IDE/Floppy cable, and splitting the single MOLEX cable.
But there's one more thing...
I was extremely excited by the thought of having such powerful hardware on my desk, but I've forgotten two things. One being a miscellaneous detail and the other one being slightly more important:
The first one, being not very important. With the order, Rackmounts ETC had a special to get a free Cat5e cable. They had forgotten to include it in with my server.
Secondly, after booting up my server for the first time (see next section), I realized that the server had not the right CPU in it. I had ordered a Core 2 Duo E6600 and I found a Pentium D 3GHz inside my server. The price difference between both these processors is minimal, but the performance difference is extraordinary.
I immediately called up Rackmounts ETC and spoke with Brian, the owner and a very nice guy who likes aviation and golfing, has told me that this was a rare situation and that both the new processor and cable would be shipped as soon as possible. I've assembled computers in the past and changing the processor was an easy process for me. I'm sure that he would have accepted to have the machine shipped back to him if I didn't have the knowledge to change the CPU.
A few days later, the new processor and cable showed up. I changed the processor and the server booted flawlessly. To this day, I'm thankful to Brian for being so patient with my shipping back of the Pentium D processor. I was very busy at the time and also was having issues with communicating with UPS and finding out the implications of shipping a processor across the border.
POST, POST and above
I connected an external CD-ROM drive to install CentOS on it. It was a painful halfof an hour because the five 15000RPM fans sounded like a vacuum cleaner. Luckily, I was able to adjust the speed in the BIOS to automatically speed up or down depending on the temperature of the CPU core. I first had some trouble getting CentOS5 working with the RAID controller. Luckily, I opted for the 64-bit version of CentOS4 and it worked like a charm.
To this day, this server is happily humming and working non-stop in the datacenter for already 5-6 months. I've had zero hardware issues and no crashes nor instability problems.
But that's not it...
I have spoken to Brian, the owner, and I am amazed at the range of services that they offer. He said that his team have been building everything from very low-power and efficient servers to even monsters. It's a shame that his website only lists a fraction of what they do, as I am sure that they could be getting way more business their way.
Pictures
I wouldn’t be a hardware review without any pictures! I have posted a few pictures below. I’m extremely sorry for the quality of these, as I merely took a few snapshots when I had received the server. I blurred out a few serial numbers also:
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It’s a shame that WHT doesn’t allow to post images in a post, as I had already prepared thumbnails for these.
Conclusion
I'm very happy that I found Rackmounts ETC. They provided me great service, great hardware and at amazingly low prices. I've been recommending Rackmounts ETC to my friends and I'm looking forward to buying more servers. I will never buy a server from another manufacturer as long as Rackmounts ETC exists.
The PROsLow Price
Very high quality Supermicro motherboard, power supply and case
Enterprise edition hard disk drive
Great customer service and support
The CONsThe RAM used (SuperTalent) isn’t liked by everyone. I’ll likely replace it to another brand when and if it will fail.
A few accessories were forgotten in my order. (But I was assured that it was a rare case and those were shipped very quickly)
which switches to buy as there are a myriad of options out there and I'm quite frankly a bit lost.
After reading through a bunch of posts here as well it looks like most people are leaning towards the Cisco Catalyst or HP ProCurve lines.
My requirements are:
- min. 24 Ports (4 SFP ports) 10/100/1000
- Layer 3 routing
- Low latency is more important than high throughput
- Switches will handle a lot of UDP multicasting, thus adequate buffers are important to minimize packet loss due to overflowing buffers
- Budget is ~$2k/switch
I'm planning on hosting several websites on a server or several servers in my home using Comcast(Comcast told me unlimited bandwidth would cost me $60.00 a month). I'm currently researching what used servers to buy and what operating system would be best to use on the servers(LAMP sounds interesting). Security is a big concern. I want to be able to expand this system when necessary.
What used servers and software would be a great setup for what I want to do? I program websites using XHTML, CSS, JAVASCRIPT AND PHP.
how many of you guys are considering buying into a CDN service? Do you ever find yourself (or your clients) asking for it?
If so, in what specific situations would you need a CDN? Did you already buy the service - if so, what made you choose your provider, and if you did not buy the service yet, why not?
where I can get the best price for HP switches? Looking for 1x2848 and 1x2650
View 7 Replies View RelatedWhat sort of specs would a server need for a small hosting company starting off? Linux, Windows, memory size, processor speed etc
View 3 Replies View RelatedI am considering buying a C6509-E and I wanted to get a feel for that which I am about to do is hopefully a good move, and not a bad one. My traffic patterns are similar to what I suspect many of you experience. My traffic levels hovers around 2 - 300 mbit, but we are about to start offering more colocation services.
I also do internet facing bgp routing.
I was thinking something like this:
1 x C6509-E Chassis
1 x VS-S720-10G-3CXL 720 with 2 ports 10GbE MSFC3 PFC3C XL
1 x MEM-C6K-CPTFL1GB Compact Flash Memory 1GB
1 x WS-X6724-SFP 24-port GigE
1 x WS-C6509-E-FAN Fan tray
2 x WS-CAC-3000W
I will probably add on the forwarding card to the 6724 once my traffic levels rises more.
Additionally I would probably be getting one more identical box a little later.
Could I get any feedback on this setup, is there anything I've missed?
Also, if you have bought a similar setup before I would love to to be given an idea of what I should expect for pricing?
So I need to build or buy a server to run my site. The site will use a basic LAMP setup and we will also be allowing for file uploads and downloads. File sizes aren't expected to be too large, mostly word/PDF documents and maybe some Powerpoint presentations. At the moment we can only afford one box to run the whole site so we need to build something that can handle both file serving and basic site stuff.
I'm wondering what kinds of hardware we would need to make this happen. If I were to setup a box with a quad core CPU, 4-8GB of RAM, and a few 15K RPM drives would that be able to handle file serving and PHP/mySQL? Would multiple processors be required? What about RAID?
I guess the real question is what kind of hardware requirements are involved with setting up a file server. I'm guessing running PHP and mySQL is not really an issue but I don't want the site to slow down because of the file serving. I'm sure some of you have experience with this sort of thing so if anyone knows please let share your thoughts.
Some time ago there was this guy apaqdigital who was quite well known among WHT memembers -- but i dont see his name when i type in the user section of the advanced search.
Anyone know if "apaqdigital" is still around or has changed his user name?
Our company just outgrown our linux routers, so we're getting ready to buy a pair of 7201's. I'm one of the programmers, not the network engineer, so I'm not sure about the details. All I know is that we will buy a pair of 7201's soon.
what they go for after discounts? Resellers/vendors feel free to chime in.
Doing a little research... What do you look for when signing up for shared hosting?
View 14 Replies View RelatedI am going to buy a Shared host for the first time. I am currently considering big hosts because of my bandwidth requirements are high.
I am considering Dreamhost, BlueHost, HostiCan, and most preferably HostGator.com
I have heared a lot about hostgator and saw many persons praising it, but when i was going to buy it, i accidently saw a few sites on google giving bad remarks about the HostGator.
Also the link [url]shows a story about the Host.
I recently purchased web hosting with HostMonster. I will want to build multiple sites down the road.
What is the process of getting another domain and hosting it with HostMonster? Can I just buy another domain from a site and stick it right on my leased web server?
Do I need to transfer the doamin into HostMonster?
I run an online flash game website, which gets between 20000-40000 unique visitors per day. The website basically just hosts flash games which I upload myself. I have no forum, do not run any databases or have any major scripts running or anything; the site is just plain html and php includes (with images and flash [.swf] files also)
I currently have 512MB of RAM on my VPS. If I decide to upgrade to a similar plan on a Dedicated Server, but instead with either 1GB or 2GB of RAM, would that make my website faster, particularly loading time? (As some games are 5 to 10 MB in size).
I find the plans to be ok.
I would like to clear a few doubts before I buy a VPS.
Here are some of them:This is the kind of setup I am looking for. Debian/Ubuntu + Webmin + Virtualmin + Usermin (maybe) + LAMP + RoR (upgradability).
I want to host multiple websites.
I would appreciate if ServeAxis can set this up for me to start with. Atleast, OS + LAMP + Webmin + Virtualmin LAMP should be setup the with default options provided by most of the shared hosts (eg: Dreamhost). Virtual host, etc. should be enabled.
Is there a knowledgebase (wiki) where I can read up on how to do this. I am okie with managing a linux system (ui, terminal) but haven't had core experience using live server. I can follow instruction through manual etc. but I have no clue of best practices.
No Community for ServerAxis users? Is there a forum etc. for Serveraxis.com users?
I can't find information regarding installation etc. on your website. Please give me any pointers if there are on the website or a handbook for administration.
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This post would have been apt in the ServerAxis forum (if there was one), if not then from what I have figured out here is where I can get a good response.
I have put up a request for the same at support & sales @ SA. Will post up updates when I receive them.
I am using linux dedicated servers, but I want to move over to Windows for some stuff I run...
Anyway, I need ideally 1000-1500gb bandwidth on 10mbs connection, ram&cpu is not important as they're very simple things but requires a lot of bandwidth. Location in Europe or USA, but whatever is cheaper...
Budget is anything upto £60/$120 a month.
I have been using a VPS for many years now and I am thinking of purchasing a dedicated server so that I can expand.
I intend to run:
-My website which has been running since 2002, just a vbulletin forum
-Some game servers
However my main intention is to run some Team Fortress 2 game servers on the dedi.
How many Team Fortress 2 game servers do you think I could run with these specifications?
Core 2 Duo 2.2 GHz
1GB RAM
160GB Hard Disk
10,000GB Bandwidth
Also, I'm used to using to cpanel/whm, how hard do you think is it to administer a linux server without any control panels?
I have some Q
1. if you were to choose to buy a dedicated server or rent
which one would you choose?
why?
2. if buying it how do you know that the parts in your computer are not second hand parts?
For learning purposes, I'd like to purchase a switch to network at least 4 servers. Based on your knowledge of switches and the ones you currently use in production, could you recommend some switches that, while initially for development use, could be transitioned to production?
I'd like a switch that specifically isn't meant for home use, because a big part of the reason for purchasing it is to get experience configuring, using, and troubleshooting a production-quality switch that has anywhere from 8-32 ports.
For those of you that actually network 32 devices together in production, do you have one mega 32-port switch, or multiple smaller (e.g. 8-port) switches? What setup, in your experience, have you determined to be ideal?
What criteria are very important to consider when purchasing a switch that, as a newbie to this area, I may not have otherwise considered? Most resources on this topic give pretty basic information, but don't highlight the real 'gotcha' areas.
Me and a friend want to buy a really cheap server. We're kind of tired of buying hosting of people, VPS, dedi even if the price is really cheap.
For once we'd just like a little server ourself. We are located in the UK.
We're hoping to spend max £110. So far we ain't been able to get a good deal for that much.
(tried ebay)
To make a pc - it would cost us more than that pricewise. To buy an old one and do few upgrades.. it would still cost us a bomb.
Do you know where I can purchase cheap pre-built webservers direct? I can't seem to find any websites. There mostly £200+
Also I'm hoping to run windows platform (mainly due to near null experiance with Linux), what simple software can I install to get:
FTP
Webpages//PHP
DNS
running? (other than apache which still look's complex).
My main problem is where to buy a cheap server.
I recently discovered the magic of Tuangou / group buying after a short stay in China. It made me wonder why this efficient method of purchasing things has yet to be popularised in the Western world. (See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuangou for more information.)
I think that this is quite interesting when you look at the economics of server resources, in particular online data storage. I have been looking for around 100GB of cheap, reliable FTP space for a while now, but it seems that truly cheap storage is only available if you have terabytes of data to store. This has always prevented me from storing my data in 'the cloud'.
However, if the Tuangou principles are applied to this situation a lot of cheap storage could be realised so long as there were enough people to cover the yearly cost.
Which moves me on to the crux of my post...
As a home user or small business owner, would you be willing to wait longer for an online storage service to be provisioned and pay in advance if there were significant cost savings to be had?
(By significant cost savings I mean cheaper than Amazon's S3.)
I'm currently looking to set up a company offering just this, but do not wish to enter the market until I can substantiate my own views and until I can be sure that my target market does not solely consist of me.
You contact a company for a quote, however this company has not replied in days, so you contact again and it takes them a few more days to finally respond; this is a pretty common scenario.
I emailed 3 companies 3 days ago. One replied within 6 hours with a quote, and the other two still have yet to respond, guess which company I am most likely to go with?
So do you get put off by a lack of a sales team / delays? To me its like they don't want my service.
I want to buy vps server from 1and1.com but I am from Turkey. 1an1 said me " The dedicated server packages are only available for US and Canada only ". For this reason I cant buy VPS server from 1and1. is there anybody sell vps and dedicated from 1and1? or does anybody help me for buying vps or dedicated server. I can pay broker price.
I want to use 1and1 because when I send email on 1and1 based server, all mail to inbox. I am building Email hosting company in TURKEY. If you know other hosting company as 1and1. all email going to go inbox. I may work with him.