Rack Power Consumption In The UK
Feb 23, 2008
My nearest major city is Manchester, so naturally I'm looking for rackspace in the region.
Unless anyone has better suggestions, I'm thinking of going with NorthernColo. They start at £50/month but jump to £70/month if you draw more than 1A of current.
If my basic physics is anything to go by, 0.5A at our 240V means a maximum server power rating of 120 watts.
...are there any dual-core / 2GB RAM box configurations which consume less than 300W thesedays? My own USB mouse for my laptop consumes 50mA.
Otherwise I'm begining to think of their 0.5A pricing as being a bit of a scam, since the 1A price also pays for 2U worth of space.
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Aug 10, 2009
I need to know what happens when a rack has capped its (lets say) 5A limit. I'm trying to calculate what exactly I can put into a rack and am considering that not all servers are going to be 100% load, as that would be bad performance anyway.
I guess it could do the following (but really don't know):
Cap performance of all servers
Cause system failures
Trip
The rack would have servers, a switch and perhaps a Remote Power Strip and Firewall. I don't know how they would be affected.
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Apr 22, 2007
I maybe interested in co-locating a server but looking from the power max for a 1U server of around 0.3Amps I'm wondering if it will be easy.
Doing the equation 0.3 * 240 gives me 72watts I believe. (Where 240 is the voltage for the UK). So with this, it doesn't give me much choice considering most processors run around 90watts and that doesn't leave any room for the power from hard drives and memory. Does anyone know what the average power consumption is for hard drives and memory?
I'm not looking for a really power system, but I would like something that if I pull it out of co-location that I can still use it one way or another. So was looking at an AMD Athlon 64 X2 where there is a 34watt version that is seemingly discontinued. Or use an AMD Turion X2, which are again hard to find, with a mini-itx board. Running with the mini-itx board, there is also the Intel Core 2 Duo which I can get quite easily.
Does anyone else co-locate and how to you manage the specification?
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Apr 13, 2008
how to go about spec'ing the power consumption of a server. below are the specs of the two servers I'm interested it.
Dual Xenon 2.8Ghz Processors with 2MB cache
1 250Gig SATA Hard Drives
1 500Gig SATA Hard Drive
4 Gigs of Ram
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Dual Xenon Quad Core 2.66Ghz
1 80Gig Hard Drive
2 320Gig Hard Drives
1 1T Hard Drive
8 Gigs of RAM
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Jan 18, 2007
If I were to build a 2.4 core 2 duo w/ 2gb ram and 4 x 500gb sata and 2 x 160 sata, both in raids. Do you guys think that would be above 2 amps usage? I was thinking maybe the efficient cpu would make up for the large amount of hard drives, all though their IO activity won't be that high. Maybe if someone has a similar setup they could shed me some light .
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Jun 12, 2008
you are going to purchase a new rack and the data center offers you a specific amount of power.
you are going to use server's specs like this
Dell PE 1950 III
two processors intel xeon E5410 2.33 GHZ , 24 MB cache, 1333MHz FSB
2x250 sata HDD
8 GB RAM
My question is how many amp's need for one server?
or how much power does one dell PE 1950 III with the previous specs needs?
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Oct 30, 2008
I'm building a storage server out of spare parts that are lying around here at the office. Purchasing a brandnew server kinda overshoots it's target, since all basic hardware is available lika a big Chieftec 4U casing with 2x 4drive SATA hotswap bays.
The machine will just be dumb storage for saving our backups.
The plan is to add a decent serverboard, proc and some ram as a baseline. On top of that a 3ware 8-port RAID-controller with 8 1TB harddrives (seagate has some nice ones).
Now the only issue i'm having is powerconsumption. The case has an 460W PSU, but I'm not sure if that's enough.
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Feb 16, 2008
What are the best ways to reduce server power consumption?
I have a Dell Poweredge 860 (2.4ghz QC, 5GB RAM, 2 HDs) and it uses 0.46AMPs when running normally. The problem is at boot up it spikes for a few seconds here and there to about 0.6 and this is a real problem as I only have a 0.5AMP allowance.
Should I underclock it? Remove the CD Drive?
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Sep 2, 2009
looking for a PDU with ethernet remote power reboot option which would have power connector other than NEMA L6-30P:
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As i only have 1/2 rack my colo provider would not give me this kind of an outlet.
Do you guys know some PDU (ethernet remote power reboot is a must for it; with at least 15-20 outlets) with a standard NEMA connector like we have at home.
I also checked HomeDepot for such NEMA x to NEMA y connector but they do not have it.
I came to this page to see if it exists but no info there.[url]
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Jun 27, 2008
I find myself in the following situation:
- Found great price for a full-cab in California
- They only provide power/cabinet and network drop
Now, I need Windows and Plesk licenses. I know Plesk doesn't allow resellers/external licenses. I am still waiting for a response from the message I left at their voicemail TWO WEEKS ago.
Now most importantly, is there any options I have for windows licenss? another option besides paying $800~ for them at newegg?
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Apr 16, 2008
All our racks had our power reduced from 250V 13 A to 250 6A. I have checked with other datacenters in Singapore, most seemed to be doing this.
Hows the situation in other countries? Is the datacenter charging you extra for the power or reducing the power for your racks?
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Feb 10, 2007
which data center has lowest rack/power costs, yet has decent reputation, security, and remote hands?
we have expanded to the point where we have backup equipment scattered everywhere and want to consolidate that equipment into a single rack or two.
Network quality is not an issue as it is backup, will only be used if we lose something elsewhere.
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Dec 6, 2007
With all the high power servers/blade servers, the 40A (@ 110V) power limit is way too small. I am wondering if there is any colo space targeted for high density application, e.g. with 10 KW/cab limit for 60A @ 208V power drops. Does anybody know of such high density colocation space? East coast is preferred.
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May 20, 2009
I was thinking about changing one of my servers to the desktop centos version instead of pure ssh access. how much added resources will this use?
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Jul 27, 2008
Would it be bad to run only 24 hard drives on a 900 watt redundant PSU setup provided in a super micro machine? No motherboard, just the hard drives and backplane? I know that if PSU's aren't loaded enough, they can malfunction or shutdown, as well as encounter efficiency issues. Is there a general rule of thumb for this sort of thing? Should I see if supermicro can give me a lower rated PSU or something? I searched around on the net a bit but couldn't find anything solid for this particular question..
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Apr 10, 2007
I've been having a problem with my webhost (in a shared server), and I don't know if this should be a usual problem or if it is my fault or if it is the host's fault.
The thing is I am getting lots of consecutive petitions for the same files from an IP at a time, which in my logs gets registered like this:
Code:
212.166.183.3 - - [03/Apr/2007:10:07:56 +0200] "GET /downloads/User_manual.pdf HTTP/1.1" 200 1388809 "http://www.mysite.com/desc.html" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)" "-"
212.166.183.3 - - [03/Apr/2007:10:07:56 +0200] "GET /downloads/User_manual.pdf HTTP/1.1" 206 66716 "-" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)" "-"
212.166.183.3 - - [03/Apr/2007:10:07:58 +0200] "GET /downloads/User_manual.pdf HTTP/1.1" 206 38519 "-" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)" "-"
212.166.183.3 - - [03/Apr/2007:10:08:00 +0200] "GET /downloads/User_manual.pdf HTTP/1.1" 206 34072 "-" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)" "-"
212.166.183.3 - - [03/Apr/2007:10:08:01 +0200] "GET /downloads/User_manual.pdf HTTP/1.1" 206 28175 "-" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)" "-"
212.166.183.3 - - [03/Apr/2007:10:08:02 +0200] "GET /downloads/User_manual.pdf HTTP/1.1" 206 30297 "-" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)" "-"
212.166.183.3 - - [03/Apr/2007:10:08:04 +0200] "GET /downloads/User_manual.pdf HTTP/1.1" 206 26516 "-" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)" "-"
212.166.183.3 - - [03/Apr/2007:10:08:05 +0200] "GET /downloads/User_manual.pdf HTTP/1.1" 206 40302 "-" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)" "-"
The thing is I am getting too much bandwidth consumption, and since I've only been with this host for 3 months now, and I never had similar problems before, I was wondering if this problem is something I can do something about? Or is it the host's config?
Why do these repeat 206 petitions happen?
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Jul 27, 2009
do dual power supplies use more power than a single supply?
E.g. Say I have a server than uses two amps, powered by a single power supply. Now if I switch to a dual supply (and say each supply has the same efficiency rating as the single), does my server use more power? How much more?
My simple view of this is that it probably does, but maybe not much. The second power supply consumes some power itself, but since its not under load, it doesn't consume much. Therefore, my server with redundant supplies might use 2.1A or 2.2A.
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Apr 14, 2009
There are Small Hosting companies and There are Big Hosting companies.
And Then There are Huge Hosting companies.
Who Consumes The Most Resources?
Your Views On It?
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Jul 28, 2009
my friend has an un-managed VPS plan in kloxo-hypervm mode
yesterday the stats showed in hypervm as the space was over used, so I personally deleted the processed stats which cleared around 20gb space, again today the space is totally consumed, I don't know why its happening and have no clue where are the other locations where the space could have been consumed i.e similar to location of logs or any other specs which could have been consuming space
unknown space consumption - very high no idea how!
its actually an image hosting site and I noted that not many pics and not much space was consumed in the pics uploaded in the last 24hrs but this really puzzles and troubles me as I am currently tracking my friend's VPS, please help me sort this out problem and keep my head high before my friend
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Mar 12, 2008
I have a vps with 1GB of ram and mysql consume lots of memory I googled about this subject but everywhere mysql performance tuning is described
mysql has 10 threads like below
7338 mysql 0 0.0 4.5 /usr/sbin/mysqld --basedir=/ --datadir=/var/lib/mysql --user=mysql --pid-file=/var/lib/mysql/zeta60.wuhosting.com.pid --skip-external-locking
7339 mysql 0 0.04.5 /usr/sbin/mysqld --basedir=/ --datadir=/var/lib/mysql --user=mysql --pid-file=/var/lib/mysql/zeta60.wuhosting.com.pid --skip-external-locking
7378 mysql 0 0.04.5 /usr/sbin/mysqld --basedir=/ --datadir=/var/lib/mysql --user=mysql --pid-file=/var/lib/mysql/zeta60.wuhosting.com.pid --skip-external-locking
2507 mysql 0 0.04.5 /usr/sbin/mysqld --basedir=/ --datadir=/var/lib/mysql --user=mysql --pid-file=/var/lib/mysql/zeta60.wuhosting.com.pid --skip-external-locking
2517 mysql 0 0.04.5 /usr/sbin/mysqld --basedir=/ --datadir=/var/lib/mysql --user=mysql --pid-file=/var/lib/mysql/zeta60.wuhosting.com.pid --skip-external-locking
2518 mysql 0 0.04.5 /usr/sbin/mysqld --basedir=/ --datadir=/var/lib/mysql --user=mysql --pid-file=/var/lib/mysql/zeta60.wuhosting.com.pid --skip-external-locking
2519 mysql 0 0.04.5 /usr/sbin/mysqld --basedir=/ --datadir=/var/lib/mysql --user=mysql --pid-file=/var/lib/mysql/zeta60.wuhosting.com.pid --skip-external-locking
2520 mysql 0 0.04.5 /usr/sbin/mysqld --basedir=/ --datadir=/var/lib/mysql --user=mysql --pid-file=/var/lib/mysql/zeta60.wuhosting.com.pid --skip-external-locking
7399 mysql 0 0.14.5 /usr/sbin/mysqld --basedir=/ --datadir=/var/lib/mysql --user=mysql --pid-file=/var/lib/mysql/zeta60.wuhosting.com.pid --skip-external-locking
5162 mysql 0 0.04.5 /usr/sbin/mysqld --basedir=/ --datadir=/var/lib/mysql --user=mysql --pid-file=/var/lib/mysql/zeta60.wuhosting.com.pid --skip-external-locking
my.cnf properties are
set-variable = max_connections=90
set-variable = wait_timeout=10
set-variable = connect_timeout=10
set-variable = long_query_time=4
skip-locking
key_buffer = 2M
max_allowed_packet = 1M
table_cache = 4
sort_buffer_size = 64K
read_buffer_size = 256K
read_rnd_buffer_size = 256K
net_buffer_length = 2K
thread_stack = 64K
table_cache = 1M
query_cache_size = 1M
[isamchk]
key_buffer = 8M
sort_buffer_size = 8M
[myisamchk]
key_buffer = 8M
sort_buffer_size = 8M
[mysqlhotcopy]
interactive-timeout
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Sep 8, 2008
Can anyone share some experiences on this? I'm new to VPS so it's not clear how much RAM cPanel will consume comparing with Webmin after everything is configured for production?
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Apr 19, 2007
I have a 256 MB VPS. Currently I run BIND to serve a few zones as the primary server and twenty more as the secondary. BIND’s memory footprint is >40 MB which is too much for such low usage. I want to replace BIND with other software to free some memory. Could you please tell me what DNS server has the least memory usage while supporting AXFR? No recursion needed.
What I’ve tried was djbdns. Its zone file format is terrible but perhaps a Web interface such as VegaDNS can help, and TinyDNS does use much less memory than BIND. What else is there?
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Apr 6, 2008
a company gives me 40U rack with 16A by 600€ per month. It will be enough power to fill the rack with Dell servers R200/R300 with dual and quad core processors?
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Nov 29, 2007
I just shipped a server out to wowrack.com... Anyone got an opinion on this company?
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Sep 27, 2007
I woke up to a complaint by the ISP of spamming for one of our servers. More than 10 000 spams in a shared hosting environment. Found Steven online, thank God! PM him and he went to work looking for the culprit. He spend time monitoring and putting in scripts to catch the culprit and in no time found the faulty script causing the spams.
Really saved me a big headache on how to explain to the ISP. Thanks to the consistent excellent work done by Steven of Rack911.
Those unpatched forums of clients can really be a hassle and a big source of problems.
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Aug 4, 2009
We plan to redoing one of our rack in the next weeks
Server, switch and firewall of this rack will be move to new rack, so redoing cable and order at best.
You known any video tutorial of how to better this?
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Mar 12, 2008
Our server count with The Planet only seems to be increasing as of late and I'm now starting to drive myself nuts with bandwidth counts, costs, etc.
My main concern at the moment is our total bandwidth. While we might have a server with a 2500GB limit only use 50% we might have a 1500GB limit use 200%. I understand that any overages are our own fault, etc but there must be a way for us to combine all bandwidth across all servers!
Is it possible for The Planet or any of the other big boys to provide private racks with pooled bandwidth without going colo?
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Feb 15, 2008
I am planning on getting a server that will run Linux.
My requirements are as follows,
Should be rack server.
Can handle around 20.000 page views a day.
Should be solid.
Should I build it or should i just get HP, DEll etc.
I also would really appreciate if you guys assist me on what components should I get picking up a good server configuration.
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Mar 25, 2008
I honestly dont understand why does DELL, HP and others price their 1U TFT monitors at 3 times the cost of the cheapest laptop?
I mean, dont get me wrong, I am all for spending good money to get quality products but I feel very awkward spending 3 times as much for a screen and keyboard when I can get their laptops WITH OS, MEMORY AND HDD for 3 times as less and use it as the 1U TFT monitors.
I can get a powerful server from Dell and HP at that price for crying out loud.
But then again, I might be seriously overlooking something here because what justifies such high price?
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Apr 26, 2008
We have about 50 Cpanel servers in our own AS with two upstream providers. On the cpanel servers we use the following IPs in the /etc/resolv.conf:
1. IP of the cpanel server
2. DNS IP of the 1st upstreamprovider
3. DNS IP of the 2nd upstreamprovider
I realized, that the upstreampoviders nameserver are not answering that fast and therefore I was thinking to make my own DNS Server, which I could use additionaly after the IP of the cpanel server.
Is this a good idea or is it not necessary? If it is a good idea, which dns deamon would be recommended? If we build this server, maybe would be also nice if we could offer DNS as a single service. Is there any solution where we could create user accounts where user could manage there own dns zones?
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