if anyone knows anything about windows 2003 server licensing on multiple xeon processor machines? Today I was going to order a dedicated box from iweb.ca but they insisted that I must pay for two windows licenses because the machine has 2 xeon processors.
I checked everywhere on the MS site and could find no mention of this. I would also like to note, I actually order IBM x-series servers with dual xeon processors for work regularly and have never been charged for two windows keys.
I have the chat transcript from my conversation with the sales person if it is needed. I just find this a little frustrating, I asked them to show me some documentation but they were unable to provide anything. If they are in the right, that is fine, I would just like to read something official I guess. I may be alone in this, but I tend to not trust everything a sales person tells me...
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
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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?
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 just received my 4th server with iWeb and I could not be more satisfied. After the problems I had with my first server with them I was so close to just saying to hell with them, but I decided to give them one more chance and ordered a whole new server. Ever since they have been running like a fine clock.
I ordered my second server in July of 2008 and since then I have had 0 downtime. Because of iWeb they have allowed my site to have almost 300 days of continuos uptime and counting.
I purchased my 3rd server in the beginning of April after I started getting some hardware failure possible emails, my account manager then Patrick Hanley was great, got me in a new server right away so I didn't have to deal with any possible hardware problems.
I saw there 10TB special and decided to consolidate some of my VPS's that I have around into 1 server. Again the order process was excellent.
I got...
2.4 GHz Core 2 Duo
2GB Ram
2x 320GB Hard Drive
CentOS 5
Cpanel
10,000GB Bandwidth
$144 a month
Which was only $5 more then I was paying for my pervious server with 3TB of bandwidth.
The server build time was about 2 days. I wish it could be a little faster but no big deal.
The only problem I have with iWeb is, then I call everyone that answers starts speaking french even tho I selected 9 for english at the menu. I just think since I selected 9 at the menu it should let the person know I selected 9 for english. Not a huge deal tho.
I would recommend them to anyone, total A+ in my mind and I will be a customer of iWeb for a very long time to come.
Does anyone have any information or reviews for Iweb? I tried a basic search and couldn't see anything relevant. They offer some absurdly good sounding packages, but are also obviously overselling.
I found them when I ran a WHOIS for Leasticoulddo, a popular webcomic. But, what about their shared hosting?
Their basic package: 600gb storage unmetered bandwith unlimited domains unlimited parked domains zero downtime 99 cent domain names $25 google adwords credit 500 email accounts unlimited MYSQL
and then their fee schedule: 10 Years - $1.67 / month 5 Years - $2.99 / month 2 Years - $5.83 / month 1 Year - $6.99 / month 6 Months - $7.38 / month 1 Month - $7.77 / month
In other words, it only costs you $60 dollars more to go from 2 years to 10 years.
I moved a web site over to iweb.com about 4 months ago. I've found them to be quite responsive to simply queries and issues - quite a change from the previous host I might say. Last week I ran an FTP download to perform a backup of all the material. After about 12Mb, the transfer was aborted and I could no longer access the site by FTP, or HTTP and I couldnt get email. The site is not down though as others can access it, but I cannot access it from any computers on my network (PC and mac). I chatted with support and they said they'd have to look into it - this was last Wed (1/14). I still cannot get connected. Further diagnosis from my end leads me to believe that IP was blocked due to the FTP transfer (I was able to duplicate this from a different IP). Apparently, the problem has been escalated to the sysadms but they are swamped and can't get to my problem. I figure unblocking the IP should be an easy quick fix. Perhaps understanding why it happened and how to rectify that will take longer.
My question to the group is, is this level of service normal for iweb.com, and are my expectations of a quick fix unreasonable?
Iweb does not care if their client using their network to attack others.
What happen is, 1 of their clients, using his website to launch iframe/xhrhttprequest to my website. In the last 48 hours i have sent 4 emails to Iweb's abuse department but received no response at all and the attacks still going on. I included the log files, a screen record video showing the site is submitting request to my site.
I also contracted live chat and they told me they will make sure this problem resolved in 18 hrs but i did not received any response or what so ever.
So what could i do to make that website to stop ddosing?
Is there anyone with a bad experience with Iweb support or I am the only one? I can't believe it %4#:-(
Hosting over 100 sites with VIP clients. We have 2 servers with Iweb Technologies in Montreal and our main server is down since 2 days.
We had 2 disks in RAID and they tell us both disk broked. How can it be in same time? and it take so long to get a short job done I am so upset.
Never go with a datacenter who is your provider/competitor in same time. We suspect them to try to ruin our business, I cannot see any other raison why.
Who wants our business I am ready to rent a dedicated server now with Plesk ? You better have a strong and quick support.
here is my review of iWeb, after all the problems have gotten worked out from here [url]It turns out when they did the install of cpanel, there was a install of PHP already on there and openldap was there before the install and caused a whole mess with cpanel.
After all that has been worked out i'm pretty happy with iWeb so far.
My Server: Core 2 Duo E4600 1GB Ram 320GB hard drive CentOS 100mbps port 3000GB bandwidth cpanel
Sales is pretty good, although im not all there with this, having to have your account manager around to do anything with your sever almost. Ive gotten rather annoyed a few times because I was told to get in touch with my account manager for simple things.
There network is solid, I live in south florida and I can max my connection at any time of the day. I have a friend in utah with a 20mbps connection and he can max it at anytime as well. Ive been able to have the server push 50mbps + for several hours with no problems.
There portal is pretty simple, no softlayer but gets the job done, and is far more then I really need, bandwidth graphs are just about all I need.
All in all I would say they are pretty damn good. After my initial issues got fixed, I would recommend them to just about anyone now.
I read a post with the same title dated in October 26. And I would avoid this hosting company. iWeb knowingly hosts scam websites run by an organized cybercrime group. One is get-itunes-today.com (64.15.143.9/get-itunes-today_com), and another is online-tvnetworks.com (64.15.143.9/worldwidetv_cyber/) "Knowingly" means that I have reported abuse to iWeb and that they have confirmed that at least one of them is hosted there. The person that I talked with is Francis Picard.
This is my second review of iWeb for a second server that I purchased from them. And this time everything went much smoother this time around.
The Server: Pentium E 2.0 Ghz 2GB Ram 2 x 320GB Hard Drive 100mbps Cpanel
After a very rocky start with iWeb the first time around, ive really started to like this company. I only had 2 small issues with this server, ordering it was kind of a problem, the order wouldn't go through, and when it finally did there was more then one of them. I also had a problem where they forgot to give me my secondary IP address, I just had to go in and request them again. These two issues are kind of a hassle but not a deal breaker.
Overall iWeb is one of the best around, there network is solid, and pretty damn fast. There customer portal is really good, no softlayer, but it gets the job done. There uptime is really nice too, I haven't had a since second of downtime with this server, and after I got my first box working right, no down time there either. I would recommend iWeb to anyone.
My only gripe with them is the account manager thing. Personally I think that needs to go. There is no reason why I shouldn't be able to talk to any sales person and order something for my server, or a whole new server at that. Its really annoying to have to go to the account manager every time for everything, and it seems like every time I need something my account manager is out of the office for X reason.
i will be migrating from softlayer and have heard some very good and bad reviews about iweb.com but here once again i wanted to ask you guys
we are going to use their server for shared webhosting
how is their network ? uptime ? and support
though im talking with their sales from past 3 days but their sales dont respond properly,i asked them something and sales guy keep disappearing again and again and not able to give any proper answer.
I recently switched my dedicated server hosting from The Planet ($100/mo) to iWeb ($70/mo). I'd been with The Planet for quite a long time (originally Rackshack, then renamed to ev1, then bought by The Planet), and had been reasonably happy with them, but I'd been thinking about jumping ship for a while, for several reasons: (1) I was unhappy with EV1 for paying protection money to SCO; (2) my hardware was getting out of date; and (3) I thought I'd see if I could save some money on my monthly bill. I found iWeb because they were high up in the netcraft rankings, and netcraft showed them as running Linux. Searching the webhostingtalk forums for comments, I did find one long thread that involved one very unhappy user, but I wasn't convinced that his complaint was completely reasonable, so that didn't scare me off.
The dedicated server page at iWeb has a prominent offer of 1-hour activation on selected servers, but that wasn't an option I could use, because I wanted to use their cheapest configuration, which is a 2.4 GHz celeron, with 1 Gb ram, 160 Gb disk space, and 1500 Gb/mo. Since this was a step down from $100/mo at my old host to $70/mo at iweb, I was worried about quality of service and support, so I only signed a one-month contract. If you prepay for 24 months, you can get the same service at $52/mo. There was a setup charge of $49. Access to a web control panel would have cost extra, and they tried hard to sell me on that, but I didn't need it, since I'm comfortable managing everything via SSH. I got Debian installed on my machine rather than their default for Unix boxes, which is CentOS.
The first problem I ran into was that I made a mistake at one stage of the sign-up process, and although the interface did have buttons for backing up to earlier steps in the process, they didn't work for me. Starting over from scratch didn't work, and I finally had to put in a different email address in order to get a fresh start.
I placed my order by phone Wednesday morning, and got access to my server Thursday afternoon. Everything worked well as far as getting apache, mysql, and postfix set up.
IWeb is Canadian. Their pricing for US customers is in US dollars. They answer the phones in French, but everyone I spoke to was bilingual, and we never had any significant problems communicating. My credit card company's risk management thingie got triggered because of the non-US transaction, but that wasn't a big problem.
The big problem I had was that I was unable to log in to the iweb web site, which I needed to do in order to set their nameservers to point my domains to my box's ip. I put in the username and password, but the login page just refreshed. I started attempting to resolve the problem first thing on Friday, and ended up dealing with a total of six people before finding a solution at noon on Monday. In the interim, they offered to set the dns zones for me from their end, and that worked. Support was pretty bad. Sometimes I was able to get through to a technician on the phone in 5-10 minutes, but other times I spent ~1 hour on hold waiting to talk to someone. Email support generally received either no reply or a non-helpful reply. This was one of those typical, frustrating tech support situations where you keep on explaining the same things to different people, they promise to get back to you but don't, they send you canned email replies that don't address your actual question, etc. The long and the short of it seems to be that their login page had at least one known OS/browser incompatibility (with some versions of Windows+IE7), and one other, which was the one I had run into (with both Firefox 3+Linux and Konqueror+Linux). (I had javascript and cookies enabled on my Linux box, and in fact the cookies were being accepted, but the page just wasn't loading.) Tech #3 was unable to log in to my account on his own machine using my login info on Firefox+Win. The final resolution of the problem was that tech #6 suggested I try a different machine, and I found that it worked on my wife's machine with Firefox+MacOS. Go figger.
So in summary, their support is horrible, but basically I'm resigned to the fact that all webhosts' support is horrible. Maybe iWeb's is a little more horrible than The Planet's, but they also cost significantly less. The experience has been bad, but not bad enough to make me give up on the initial investment of the setup fee plus first month's service. I realize that at $70/mo they're working on a very thin profit margin, and I'm not under the illusion that they can afford to provide the level of support that would come with a $300/mo account. I'm going to stick with them for at least a while and just try really hard to avoid ever needing support.
i have been ruuning a hosting company for little under 2 years now,at first i started of with a resellers plan from hostgator, then i upgraded to my own dedicated servers from iweb who have been spot on up till now, all my server have been fine its just the network can some times be a bite slow, has anyone else had the same problem?
I ordered a new server from iWeb a few days and after I transfered everything and was stating to set everything up I noticed that I as only getting about 1/2 of my download speed from both of my iWeb servers.
Is anyone else experiencing slower then normal downloads from iWeb?
Normally I could max my connection out at 2.1 MB/s now I can only get about 800 KB/s - 1.0 MB/s
