new xeon motherboard after having nothing but constant problems with the supermicro boards. Specifically we've had many arrive with faulty dimm's but beyond that getting Windows 2003 loaded, dealing with drivers for SCSI raid configurations is simply a bear. Supermicro's support isn't much help either with answers like "well that's the driver, it should work."
Just trying to get some feedback on what others are using. Looking for something that has both SATA and SCSI support with and without RAID 0,1,5 and 10 and has better than average Windows 2003 support.
We're not interested in any of the options from Dell, HP, etc.
I'm thinking in changing my actual dedicated server, but I'm not sure if I will win with the change.
I use it for web hosting, but I am going to need a lot of Mysql use.
I also want to work with Flash Media Server or Red5, but I have the project stopped.
All are almost in the same price. What do you recommend me? I have never touched Linux and my Server is Windows 2003, do you recommend me to change to Linux?
------------------------------------ Intel Xeon 3075 2x 2.66 GHz L2: 4 MB, FSB: 1333 MHz 4 GB DDR2 HD 2x 750 GB SATA2 RAID HARD 1 Ping: 60 ms ------------------------------------- Core2Duo E6750 2x 2.66 GHz L2: 4 MB, FSB: 1333 MHz 4 GB DDR2 HD 2x 750 GB SATA2 RAID HARD 1 Ping: 60 ms ------------------------------------- Dell R200 Quad Core X3210, 2.13GHz/2x4M 1066FSB Intel Quad Core 2.13GHz RAM 2GB 667MHz Dual Rank ECC (2X1GB) HD 250GB SATA (7,200rpm) Ping: 40 -------------------------------------- Now I have: •2 x Intel Xeon 2.40 Ghz Compaq Prol DL 360 G3 •Intel Xeon 2.40 Ghz •1 GB RAM (PC2100 Mhz ECC DDR SDRAM DIMM •HD 80 GB UATA •Cache 512 Ping: 40 ms
Currently my web sites in VPS with PowerVPS and my Server everyday downs and my CPU usage is high load all the time.
My Ram is 1500Mg and I see that my web sites are using 1200-1300 all tha time. So I will move to dedicated server and need your help to choose my server.
I have only one large web site and all the other web sites are small (20 web sites).
The larg web sites is VB forum Everyday Visit my large web site 10000-15000 visitors . Alexa rank 42000. spend 190-220GB monthly BW.
What do you think about this offer from THPLANET? Intel Xeon 3040 Dual-core Conroe Processor DRIVE CONTROLLER: SAS/SATA PRIMARY HARD DRIVE: 250GB Hard Drive OPERATING SYSTEM: CentOS Enterprise Linux, Version 4 MEMORY: 2048 MB RAM CONTROL PANEL: cPanel/WHM with Fantastico IP ADDRESSES: 10 IP Addresses BANDWIDTH: 1500 GB Bandwidth UPLINK PORT SPEED: 10 Mbps Uplink $186.5 per month and $0 set up ******* And I have another offer from SoftLayer Single Processor Quad Core Intel Xeon 5410 Processor: – 2.33GHz 1 x 12MB CPU Cache 2GB FB-DIMM RAM KVM over IP Access / Reboot 2000GB Public Bandwidth Unmetered Private Network Bandwidth 5 Public IP Addresses CentOS CONTROL PANEL: cPanel/WHM with Fantastico 1 x 250GB SATAII HDD $284/mo NO SETUP
I'm trying to figure out for sure which is best. Which would you do? The second is a bit older technology, I guess, but it seems to me that two discreet older Xeons would be better than one dual core newer Xeon.
Xeon 3040 Dual Core 1.86GHz (Conroe) + Single Processor Dual Core + 2GB RAM + 2 x 250GB SATA Drive + Cpanel/whm/fantastico + RedHat Enterprise 5 Linux + 10 IP Addresses + 1500GB Monthly Transfer + 10mbps Uplink
$174 Per Month
-OR-
Dual Xeon 2.8GHz + 2GB RAM + 2x 80GB IDE Drives + Cpanel/whm/fantastico + RedHat Enterprise 5 Linux + 10 IP Addresses + 2500GB Monthly Transfer + 100mbps Uplink
Softlayer is pricing these both the same, and I've been a big fan of the x3220 for a long time now. I haven't been able to fine ANY reasonably priced servers that can out perform the x3220 in computational ability.
That said, does anyone have any figures that would suggest the 5410 is better?
Single Processor Quad Core Xeon 5410 - 2.33GHz (Harpertown) - 1 x 12MB cache vs Single Processor Quad Core Xeon 3220 - 2.40GHz (Kentsfield) - 2 x 4MB cache
Clearly the cache is bigger, but for me, it's about speed and computation.
I can't find any references to the x5410 in the VPS vs Dedicated thhread.
I just ordered a dell server a few days ago and have noticed in addition to a free harddrive upgrade I now have an upgraded processor for the same price.
The question for me is which is better? The previous processor was the low energy 105W one which suited me fine as I'm co-locating this to a DC where they are very strict on power consumption.
Is this one going to provide a noticable performance increase over the first? Is it a major power hog?
We currently use Intel motherboards in our dedicated servers, for our customers.
But I wish some advice about these manufacturers. Are they good? As good as intel, or even better? (They are much cheaper than Intel, and uses Intel chipsets)
There's something I've always wondered, what makes a Xeon a Xeon?
For instance, what is the difference between a Core 2 Quad Q9300 and a Quad-Core Xeon E5420. Both are quad core, have a 1333MHz FSB, run at 2.5GHz, have SSE4.1, any all the specs seem identical.
Only difference I see is the Xeon has 12MB cache compared to the Q9300's 6MB.
But generally speaking, what makes a Xeon such much better for a server environment than a Core 2 processor.
I bought a dual socket F motherboard and having a hard time getting OpenVZ to run on it. I'm wondering if the board is compatible. It's a Tyan S2932 and the OpenVZ kernel crashes on it. (2.6.24 kernel)
I've flashed the latest bios.
So - thinking about returning the MB and getting something else. What MB is compatible with OpenVZ?
Specs:
2 socket F for quad core opterons. 16 momery slots.
there are motherboards are designed for server and some are for lower level, it is likely personal computer, i am interested with how to differentiate the two kinds of motherboards?
I have tested the Asus M2N-MX motherboard on CentOS 5, the first 10 worked very well, zero problems and very stable.
My next 10 somehow did not work at all, after speaking to asus techs, I had to stick a 512MB ram module (which does make the motherboard work) and update the bios. Now the 1GB kingston ddr2 modules work fine.
Installed centos, and then to find out that every time the server gets rebooted, ALL eth0 settings are lost. I tested debian on it and same story! The nic is found, but debian is assigning/detecting new MAC's for the nic all the time.
The weird thing is the first batch is working very good!
I have wasted countless hours in trying to get this second batch working with no luck. I am looking to get the gigabyte GA-M61PM-S2 with RTL8211 nic. Anyone who was able to get this one running with centos without any problems?
Is there a current motherboard out there that will fit the Supermicro SC512L-260B chassis without modification? I think Foxconn had one recently, but it may have been discontinued.
I know sometimes you have to grind off the the Audio since it is too high for the 1U chassis. I'm hoping maybe ASUS has something that will fit.
I purchased a Tyan S3970 (Tomcat h1000e) motherboard with a Supermicro SC820 Case, 'cuz I got a good deal on the combo. After I purchased it I realized that the back-cover does not match up, and the connector wires are short. (ie. The NIC/power LED wires do not reach the connector). Does anyone have a solution to this problem.
I am using epicvps right now. But it has been baught by vaserv days before. Where it came a lot server downtime and server problems. My storage will automaticly decrease. I send tickets to them many times, they just respond me that the nod that where i host have too much vps on it. They tell me that they will move my account to new nod. But it still happen again today!
My budget is something around $50 per month, can anyone recommend some reliable company?
i like the I/O panel is in the front and not the back. It can be a pain in the butt to access the back I/O panel in the DC.
I'm pretty sure the default SuperMicro panel will have to be take out but is there any motherboard that can fit this case? Did anyone try this case? Can it be bolt down by its ears? It's interesting that i don't see the blower on this case. How do you cool it?
Twice in two years now, as a very responsible host with ZERO tolerance to spam (incoming or outgoing!), I have been hampered by the efforts of the anti-spam "reputation service" offered by [url]
We host something like 2000 websites across a cluster of servers, and while we do everything possible to prevent spam, it's inevitable there will be the occasional outbreak.
A couple of days back, sure enough, one of our hosted sites was compromised. As far as I could tell, the culprit was too simple a password. There were no signs of compromised scripts, permissions, anything. Just a spam script uploaded via FTP from a foreign IP address. We do have limits on password strength now, but may not have when this account was set up.
Anyhow, within 120 minutes or so, we had removed the spam script, blocked the offending IP, secured the site and delisted our IP from the ONE RBL it appeared on - Spamcop.
You would think that would be the end of the story, right? Wrong.
Here we are, over two days later, NO listings on any RBLs, NO further spam from ANY of our servers. What Senderbase reputation do you think that server has? Poor.
This is an IP that as far as I know has NEVER had a spam issue, other than the single outbreak two days ago.
The net result of this "Poor" listing is that we have now had outgoing email sitting in our mail queue for 50+ hours because the recipient mail systems are STILL blocking us based on our "Poor" reputation.
Furthermore, I quote directly from the Senderbase site: "Why is the reputation Poor? This host is sending spam!". That one really tipped me over the edge.
As I say, this is at least the second time two years running that this has happened to us. Single spam problem; Cleaned up quickly and efficiently; Wait on Senderbase for days.
It is hard enough dealing with spammers and problems like this, without having to fight the "good guys" too. All I can say is that I will personally NEVER use, nor recommend, the services of Senderbase or Ironport.
I am currently with Lunarpages. Up until a few months ago I was on a regular plan (not VPS). Their service and uptime was great. But they moved me to a VPS due to the traffic which I completely understand. However, since I have been moved to their VPS servers the downtime has been horrible. And by horrible I mean horrible! So I am on the hunt for a new web hosting company.
I really do not know what I need, I believe I do need VPS hosting though. The bad news is that I know nothing about VPS hosting. Lunarpages has me on Plesk now and I could not be more lost with it.
My main dilemma is that I have a php forum that generates a good amount of traffic. I am getting about 40,000 page views per day on the forum and about 6,000 page views per day on the main website portion.
I am scared to death to move the forum. I fear I will need a tech friendly host to help me set the forum back up. Once I am back up and running I never need any help. I just want to get to that point again.
But I have questions, like what the heck is "Guaranteed RAM"? Is that important to me? Could this be part of the reason that now that LP has moved me to their VPS servers that I can no longer just simply download my large database for the forum through phpMyAdmin? It just craps out and LP told me something like VPS servers didn't have enough memory (or was it RAM?) to preform the task?
So far I am hating my VPS experience. I just want to be up and running smooth again without fearing the downtime.
I think LP's hosting for the VPS is around $45.00 per month or so/ I would like to be lower if possible, but I do not want to get a new host with the same downtime issues.
