I would like to build two servers. I have a budget of $15,000 to build one (1) database and one (1) web server. These servers would have to be very very powerful and have the best hardware money can buy but remain within the budget.
View 14 RepliesNow i've been looking at a LOT of servers in the past few weeks, many many sites.
I've seen a LOT of CELERON 2.4 GHZ being unloaded
BUT what about the AMD Semprons?
Who would rule over?
Whats the min Sempron that would rule over an Intel 2.4ghz?
Assuming both 1 GB RAM
I am sure most have seen the perfect server series on howtoforge. It clearly states the aim is to build an ISP like web server. I am trying to build a server to host about 20 domains that the company i work for own. We are currently hosting these elsewhere.
Do i need to install quota, bind, postfix, saslauthd, Dovecot and Ispconfig? This is what we want to do: host our domains with the option to create email address for each domain if we want to.
Also we will need 2 of the domains to have SSL cert applied. For that we will be using virtual ips as each ssl cert needs to be applied to one ip address. We have 2 network cards in the server but i have tries ubuntu 8.04 and now centos 5.3 and each time i am not able to connect to the server remotely. Now that i have unplugged one of the cables, i am able to connect to the server remotely.
As mentioned above i have installed Centos 5.3 i386.
I'm in the process of trying to document a process for setting up any new LAMP servers in our hosting environment and I was wondering if anyone had any input on software and best practices that they use in their environment and why. I.E.
PHP setup
Apache setup
Preferred Linux Distro
FTP program used
User creation guidelines
Default php.ini settings
Default site settings
etc.
I had asked for some help awhile ago and recieved some great advice. Unfortunately, the company I work for decided not to move at that time (between deciding to give the host more chance and also becuase we were all dreading another swich over. However, we are now ready to move.
We are currently on shared hosting and I belive VPS is the best option for us right niw (in this stage of our growth).
What I need is one that is fully managed and then some. I need someone that will provide the same type of support you get with shared hosting - meaning I can even come to them when suddenly we have an e-mail issue for example. And for things tht they don't do, at least have the patience to point me in the right direction, help me know what I need to do. I can handle the admin functions of a shared hosting site... but am leery of doing to much more without guidence...
Another thing I am looking for is someone that we can grow with seemlessly - even if it ends up resulting in going to a fully manged deciated server. With any growth, I do want want downtime or having to change DNS (that always causes us problems). I want someone we ca be with for years, allows us to grow, and is reliable/dependable. I really hate switching hosts!
What we need/our set-up/about us:
I would need at least 10 GB hard drive (SCSI HDDS) to begin with.
We currently have two seperate SMF forums (both private, internal with few users) operating on their own MySQL installations. We will probably add more forums (SMF) in the future - each with their own MySQL databases.
We have a Wordpress blog
We use Coppermine Album (it is also tied into the blog so that thumbnails of photos load into the blog sidebar)
For Transfer/bandwidth - I am not sure. I will guess at least 50G. We currently canlt send a lot of our e-mail out of our server due to e-mail limitations so I don't know exactly how much we will use.
On transfer - the majority of it is e-mail, followed by ftp usage.
I really do need someone who can handle and understand our high volumne of e-mail and will help make sure we have no issues with it. That is actually the lifeblood of our business. We recieve data from our clients each day via e-mail, and then send them back customized reports (each day) based on their data. This means we get a lot of e-mail in, and even more going out. When our e-mail shuts down - we shut down.
Our current hosting uses Cpanel and I do like it (and am used to it), however would consider a different control panel if it has the same basic features of Cpanel and is easy to use. However, I really like the fact that moving a Cpanel sitre to another one is very easy (unless that doesn't work when going from shared to VPS)
We will not be doing any reselling of hosting or anything like that - so i don't need anything geared that way. We actually will probably only have the one site, with a few other domains pointed to that. However, we may eventual create additional sites (with their own name) just for the forums.
I have seen about 10 companies listed in other threads that look really good, but not sure which I want... becuase I am hoping I can stay with who ever I pick for the next 10 years and more...
Some of the ones I am interested in are:
Servint
zone.net
powervps
Lets say you're building your 'perfect' rack or cabinet, you've got a single network and power drop from your provider, 20 x mixed 1 and 2u boxes (two interfaces per box), 1u switch and require remote reboot across them all. No other servers to go in the rack at a later date.
What are you gonna buy if budget wasn't an issue? rack/cab/pdu/cbl management/etc/etc.
Basically it's your geek pr0n rack/cab. I'll post mine once I've had a further think.
If you want to sell shoutcast accounts what would you go for?
For example,
You want to create a lot of accounts on one server.
100 listener accounts at 128kbps
50 listener accounts at 128kbps
Hosted shoutcast accounts either with whmsonic or cast control
The hosted accounts would have 1gig of webspace
Not sure how much bandwidth each account would need?
Obviously a good connection and server specs
Everyone has different advice it's confusing for a newbie
I can't decide on a server and i want to get setup soon.
Plus i am kind of on a budget.
I'd like your feedback on what you would consider being the perfect shared hosting account.
What features would be valuable for you, which wouldn’t?
Any features not listed?
If you had to put together the perfect feature set for a shared hosting account, how would you do it?
I run a centos 6 plesk 12 server with around 7 domains.All runs perfect untill a 3 hours ago. The server was offline.After reboot plesk starts up without a problem but the sites keep offline. While httpd and mysqld and psa runs perfect.Also cannot find error messages in the messages, error_log or anything. How to proceed debugging?
View 2 Replies View RelatedAre there any budget vps with decent bandwidth, about 50mbps up for short periods of time?
east coast
64/128mb
5gb hdd
100gb bw
10$/mo
I've tried three budget companies this month already.
dmehosting ~ 20mbps,
hostourweb ~ 3mbps,
photonvps ~ 3mbps
Is there any webhosting company that could provide me a budget proxy? I have already asked DTH and they told me they dont provide such service
Will be having 4 users ( 1 or 2 most of the times) at most and no weird use will be made.
I live in the UK and have a budget of £150, so say, $300 to spend on hardware for colocating my server.
I already have a 1U Queenserv Chassis with 280w PSU & rails.
I also have 2 SATA drives so i wont need to buy Hard Drives.
What i need is:
- A motherboard
- A CPU
- At least 2GB RAM
Anyway what would be the best hardware to buy on my tight budget?
I'm considering moving from free to budget hosting. The maximum I would be able to pay would be $5 per month, and I don't really like the idea of a contract over 2 years.
I've been looking around, and it seems like 1 and 1 has the best deal. They allow unlimited domains, which is good as I plan on trying to host quite a few sites off one account. They also offer 10 MySQL db's. This is what i'm mainly concerned about, as most of my sites use 1-3 db's.
Does anyone have anything to say about 1&1? Or any other budget host recommendations?
I have a few small VPS accounts (think 64MB memory, low disk etc). I usually pay around $10/month and everyone seems to use HyperVM with XEN/OpenVZ. I've pretty much had it with issues with HyperVM mainly and I want to move back to Virtuozzo.
I used to be with Future Hosting but I see their lowest price is $20/month for their lowest 32bit packages. Are there any others that are cheaper? Not looking for crazy specs, management or a particular country. These are just test beds.
building a SeedBox with a $35,000 USD Budget
how to build one of these bad boys. While staying under my budget.
I want to build a top of the line SeedBox that can handle 100 users. I need help on what kind of software and hardware I need with prices. I want this to be able to hold a 10Gbits line. (Or 10 1Gbits lines) And security stuff I need like firewall or virus scanner stuff. And Back-Up type stuff like in case of a HD Crash. And how to get 100 different IP addresses.
I've been a customer of Budget VPS Hosting for about 10 months now and figured it was about time I wrote a review
I signed up initially for B-VPS's 111 package (CPU 100MHZ HD 10GB RAM 100MB BW 100GB PORT 100mbps, 100KB/s Uplink). There was a major fiasco with my Paypal account, which resulted in the payment eventually being treated as "spurious" and B-VPS being asked to refund the amount!
Despite this, Jon who handles support at B-VPS was very patient and agreed to help me get a 2nd VPS to work with (even with the 1st one still not paid!). I've since upgraded this server to a VPS333 account and in January this year, I signed up for a 2nd server with B-VPS
Pro's:
- Great support! I'm based in Asia, so timezones work against me. Despite that, I can usually expect a response with 12 hours of opening a ticket. Some problems took a very long time to resolve (I'm looking at you OpenVZ) but Jon stuck with me on figuring out the source of the problem.
Regarding provisoning of the VPS, I got my login details within a hour of putting in the order for both my orders
- Pricing: The VPS111 package costs just 5 USD/month and is more than enough to run some low-volume websites. Heck, with some careful tweaking you could even run a CMS on that.
-Bandwidth: I get very good speeds when running package installs from the server. My East Coast VPS (600K uplink) has a public speedtest page for folks who'd like to check this out from themselves: http://torbox.theaveragegeek.com/speedtest/
Cons:
-Uptime: To be honest, Uptime has been a bit of a mixed bag. My central DC VPS (Limestone hosted) has had some pretty significant outages, where the host node is completely offline for upto 4 hours. The East Coast VPS (Burstnet) has had no issues so far though.
-CPU & RAM: Budget VPS does not offer Burst CPU or RAM. This can be a tad frustrating especially if you need a little extra RAM/CPU for installing packages but not otherwise. I'm not going to debate this (at B-VPS's prices, I've been able to afford the beefier package that allows me to do both ) but you should keep this in mind.
Well that's the review. I highly recommend B-VPS if you are looking to host a low-usage VPS cheaply and quickly!
I run a site that has a medium sized forum (23,000 members; 350,000 posts), about 1000 pages of content (but not heavily viewed), and some relatively un-resource-intensive features. We have one feature that is a bit stressful on the database side of things, but nothing too extraordinary.
I'm looking to migrate from our current dedicated server at LunarPages to another alternative. LP has been great to us, and I would recommend them to anyone, I just feel like we can get a similar server for slightly less somewhere else.
We are paying $165/mo for these specs:
- Intel Pentium 4 2.8ghz
- 2 GB RAM
- 160 GB Storage
- 1500 GB Bandwidth
- cPanel
I would like to shoot for something more like this:
- Something better than a P4... open for suggestions, but I'm pretty greedy in terms of processors, I'd like something pretty nice.
- 1 GB RAM should be fine
- 100 GB Storage or more
- 1000 GB Bandwidth or more
- cPanel
- Less than $150 total
So not too many major changes I suppose... and maybe I'm being too greedy. I've found some offers I like the looks of, but I need some suggestions. Companies with good customer support are always preferable as well, of course.
We're building out a small setup for a client, and we're wondering what's a recommended L3 switch on a budget?
Basically, we're going to be colocating in a rack with about 12 servers & a 100 mbps drop, and won't really be doing any major bandwidth (less than 10 mbps).
The datacenter was saying something about a /30 handoff for the C class of IPs they're going to be allocating to us. They also said they will NOT handle any Vlans for us, and will just basically handoff the IPs and we will need to route to them and do our own vlans.
One thing we need to be able to do is route additional IPs to servers if a client orders them. We were recommended a 3550-24-EMI by a friend, it seems old but if it does the trick, it works. One thing I was reading about it though was PVlans and the 3550 not supporting them. I don't think we'd need PVlans in our setup, just basic 1 vlan per client.
Alright, here's the deal--
I need a budget chicago server -- I know, very difficult to find (last company I went with was Singlehop, and they're great, but I can't afford it for what I'd wish to do.)
Anyways, here's what I need my server for --
Some personal, non busy websites(my webhost that I've been using is being let go by me :[ I need this server for it reliably.)
CentOS5 or RH4 is preferred.
cPanel is required
I intend to host a few websites, and TWO counter-strike 1.6 servers (not busy or CPU intense really)
So..
I'm with burstnet and they're pretty good, however I do have some downtime and that's really my main issue. I need my sites to be online 24/7, or as close to that as possible.
I have a budget of around $80 per month, which isn't much, but I don't need any top of the range server, I'd love to go with singlehop, they look amazing, but their pricing is out of my range.
Can anybody recommend any good companies, with good uptime and a reasonable support team? It would be brilliant if they had some sort of remote reboot facility, as waiting for the company support team to reboot can be a pain...
I don't need much, the server is just to host my person websites, project ideas etc. I need around 1TB bandwidth, 100GB diskspace maybe... I could probably manage on shared hosting right now, however I need the freedom of my own dedicated. I've had a bad experience with VPSs before, so they're out of the question.
I've searched, but burst seems to be my only option, which is disappointing.
Requirements:
<$80 P/M
~100GB Disk space
~1TB bandwidth
~10 IPs.
No control panel, I can manage that myself
Things have become a little hectic.
I decided to go for a budget dedicated server because the shared hosting I was using was grinding to a halt several times a week.
I haven't used a dedicated server before, and wasn't 100% sure what I needed, so after lot's of going round in circles, I found the 123-reg £49.99 server and unlimited bandwidth, so I ordered it....and waited, and waited. Not so much as an order confirmation, or reply to my emails asking what was going on. Not a great start, so I cancelled the order.
OK, I have a budget of around £60 a month.
I need the server to be able to do mod_rewrites.
Unlimited, or a generous amount of bandwidth per month is important.
Good service if it all goes wrong is essential.
Preferably UK based, but will consider other countries if contacting them isn't a problem.
I need some kind of control panel as well.
i will be running a Vbulletin + VBSEO (hence the mod_rewrites) installation and a joomnla installation with lots of large images if that makes any difference.
Something like 500MB/10GB. Know any hosts?
View 17 Replies View RelatedOne of my contacts is looking for a domain/hosting server that's cheap (under $15/month total), and reliable (the usual 99.9% uptime). My contact has used Yahoo (paid) before, but wasn't really satisfied by it.
I doubt that the total disc space will go over 1 gig, and PHP/MySQL is preferred, just in case.
I have 4 servers in fdc right now. My company is growing and i need some more servers like those at fdc. But I don't like the idea of having all of my servers in one location. I'm looking for budget price arround $200 per server.
View 13 Replies View RelatedI've seen a lot of discussion regarding low budget providers and am surprised I haven't seen many mentioning Wholesale Internet. I'd like to give my personal review.
I've used them several times over the past two years, and currently have two boxes with them. Support has always been professional and fair.
It has been my experience that they tend to go above and beyond what the customer expects, which seems rare for budget hosts. I have never been nickel and dimed over a small upgrade or service.
Uptime is as good as it gets. Hardware seems reliable. Delivery time is fairly quick.
Their prices on servers with DirectAdmin are impressive.
I would wholeheartedly reccomend them to anyone in need of a budget box. Their prices are extremely competitive, and they can do seem to give extremely good custom quotes if nothing they offer quite meets your needs.
I currently use [url] but I have had so much downtime and errors, just last night I had to login because sql was down it seems, so I try to login cpanel, and I get the annoying cpanel key error so I went to login via ssh to fix it with the command, and I can't login ssh because there is a centos bug with a pty error. ( Which steadcom does notate in a kb article but I would think the more intelligent thing to do if you know there is a bug is to go fix everyone who has centos bug to avoid the unneeded extra support tickets asking to fix the bug in the first place not too mention customer frustration.
So after that I thought ok i'll login directly to the vps hypervm and do a reboot to see if I can do that before submitting a ticket. I login and it says that I can't because the slave is upgrading. Ugh... so now my site has been down for almost 9 hours and so I send in a ticket and they said the centos bug is fixed and WHM is working again, but it isn't I can't connect at all, this + the ddos steadcom received and loads ticket number 15... in the last few months has put me over the edge.
So I am looking for a new home for my two ipb boards and one phpbb board.
I currently pay around $95 USD a month for my plan.
Must haves are WHM/Cpanel, and the ability to login and reboot the vps,
managed would be nice as well.
Current Disk Space is 60gb ( Don't really need that much but it doesn't hurt )
Bandwidth was 1500gb, but I used a coupon on WHT forum and now have 3000
I don't use it all but it's nice...
Only need 1 ip address.
SSH Access yes please.
Also my current ram is 1024, burstable 2gigs. I would like to keep something comparable.
I have found this forum through searching google for articles etc about the best/cheapest host for a small forum, and I think this is the best place to ask I have searched the many topics on this but none of them quite answer my question, so I apologise for repeating what may have already been done.
Anyway....
I currently use a free host (forumotion) and have become increasingly frustrated at not having total control over my forum, and not having access to the database.
I figure now will be a good time to move as the forum is only a couple of months old.
So what I am looking for is a basic hosting package including domain name, that can support phpbb version 3. Im looking for cheap and cheerful basically. I dont know enough about this kind of thing to elaborate, but here are my forum stats;
Number of posts 10781
Posts per day 121.13
Number of topics 625
Topics per day 7.02
Number of users 153
Users per day 1.72
Most users ever online 40
Stats generated on Tue Jul 08, 2008 2:31 am
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As you can see it is pretty small.....it may grow over the next couple of years but has a shelf life of 2010 as that is when the TV show finishes (its a Lost forum), and it may continue for a while after that but I dont expect it to go on and on and on
We have a lot of media posted, mainly youtube vids and jpeg, and we also have a small aracde, so i'm guessing I would need a lot of room there? Plus we have newsletters that would need to be hosted as online versions but they are just html documents.
I hope I have given enough information....oh budget wise I am looking at cheapest possible as I dont want to start charging members to fund the hosting costs.
We use dedicated servers at several data centers.
We have used a particular host since 1999 (we were shared/resellers then) and have used dedicated with them since 2001.
For a particular set of development servers, moderate traffic e-commerce sites and testing we use them.
One particular server has been our workhorse and it basically had a ridiculously low grandfathered in price.
Unfortunately they moved us. That's not a problem. The problem is they moved our dedicated machine with 3 drives to a vps.
So instead of our own machine, we share a machine, and instead of 3 drives, we have 3 partitions on one drive.
(the drives were 1 for OS, 1 for websites, and 1 for backups)
This is a windows 2k3 machine
The did this without notice or warning.
We saw it, then they mentioned it in a support ticket, and now refuse to discuss it (no response to questions)
So, unfortunately we hate to move.
We use 3 provider, none of them have we been with less than 3 years. We are super loyal if you treat us right.
WE dedicate and not co-lo. Co-lo def would save us money, but we just prefer a dedicated environment.
What we are lookng for is an entry level server to begin a relationship with a new host
for this machine
need two small drives (35 GB or more)
half gig or more of memory
p4 or more processor
100mbps port preferred
win 2k3
if you want to throw in a control panel great
(sounds crappy doesnt it? but thats what we used for many years)
multiple IPs
of course, feel free to make it better
looking to pay less than $199/mo - no setup
less than 150 would be stupendous.
willing to sign a contract.
AM I asking too much? considering u could probably do the above with spare parts? I don't know
Prefer North American based machines.
We really don't have that much of a simultaneous strain on these, they are work horses really.
After the recent null route of my server ip by providers datacenter without asking no questions nor informing anyone from VD or myself. I am forced to seek a replacement for a 10 mbps unmetered server used for web proxies.
Suggest me good place which has good business ethics and atleast care to inform their customers of their actions.
no Burst net based resellers or anyone even remotely related to burst!
a remote desktop with unmetered bandwidth, i don't care about space, 500 megs of space would be fine
View 13 Replies View RelatedI have a lot of questions here so if you can't answer them all I understand. even pointing me somewhere where I could get the answers would be appreciated; hardware sites focusing on server hardware, forums focusing on such, etc.
we plan to have three different types of servers:
- db server (self explanatory. mysql. for forums, mysql driven sites.)
- file server (lots of files around ~2-10MB, consistant 70mbps right now, but we want more room for upgrades. needs a LOT of storage room.)
- web server (lots of php files, but also static things like plain html, images, etc. also includes all misc services for the setup-- dns, etc.)
could I be given a rundown for which hardware each of the three should have? I don't need specifics, even just knowing that more ram is important here while cpu doesn't matter as much, or that the fastest disks available are a must, etc would all be valuable info for me. despite that, I certainly wouldn't mind specific hypothetical hardware configs.
for the database server I'm assuming the more ram the better. not entirely sure about the cpu? also not positive on disks...
for the fileserver, how much ram would be practical or useful? disk io will be an issue I'm because plenty of people will be pulling files at once so the disk needs to read from multiple places. scsi (and even raptors) are not an option as we need 750GB+ of space on a reasonable budget. more ram will take some load of of the disks, but how much is neccessary / reasonable?
for the web server I'm assuming cpu first, then ram, but it'll likely need less ram than the db server?
I'm more lost on the disks than anything. scsi on the fileserver is not an option under any circumstances due to $/GB. for the db & web server I'm willing to pay for scsi if the performance increase really does warrant the extra money, but I'd like to be convinced before shelling it out. if you have benchmarks geared at server hardware when it comes to disks I'd really appreciate it.
also, what's the best way to network these together when colocated? each one with a dual gigabit ethernet port and then the communications go to and from the router?