Nice dbase server needed - spam me!
 

OK folks, I'm looking for a nice loaded server for high thruput dbase queries.
No control panel nonsense required, but scsi drives and ram are a must. Dual cores would be just sweet also.


The very best offers I've had at the moment (v. seriously thinking about it) are the following:

They came with 1500GB b/w. (I require min. 800GB b/w/mo). Must have 100 mbit full duplex uplink port tho

Can you better any of these three deals? If so, spam me :)

US or EU location. Either is good.
I currently have 4 dedicated servers and have been renting servers for over 4 years - I'm in in for the long haul, so don't mind a small upfront setup cost to bring down the monthly rental.

Cheers

Split Infinity rocks for me.

wanted to edit, but timed out - this is an unmanaged server I require (but Level1 management is essential). Please indicated any extras like KVM or remote reboot ports etc etc

Also, FreeBSD please.

lol - from their site:
Dual Xeon 2.4ghz 2GB RAM, 120GB X 2 SATA HD w/raid - $1200/mo w/ $499 setup
OK, it's 10Mb/s, but jeeze, $1200 per month?!! Did you read my post? I can get the dual xeons for $99/mo

No, he didn't ...

He just came in to push someone, regardless ...

THe deals you actually have been offered are amazing .... Wonder why you still are searching..... :warning

those are nasty setup fees. hit up oc3networks. they can probably hook you up.

Yes I did, but didn't bother to check quotes, or pricing info...

Just letting you know my personal experience.

SI's customer service, and reliability are hands down the best I have experienced with anyone.

Because they were from tailoredservers - they seem to have been around a while, but I don't know them, so am a little reluctant to pay the setup fees if they'll be gone tomorrow. They offer a choice of three network providers tho, which is nice. Thanks tho for pointing that out - they are great offers, and I never clarified why I am erring on them!

:1orglaugh :1orglaugh :1orglaugh
No point to check that .....

Not what he asked ...

probably is, as well as many other hosts. Again, the poster was asking for PRICES ....

.... ok ....

:1orglaugh :1orglaugh :1orglaugh

you should check out www.swiftco.net

We have quite a few servers with them.... they don't charge any setup fee. So they have to earn our business everyday!:thumbsup

3 different providers? or 3 different in bgp? 3 different not multihomed means they are not running bgp and are prone to downtime....

see sig for a custom quote :)

it was 3 network providers (HE.net, Yipes and the Planet), so I guess he's a reseller with many servers spread in different datacenters...
Don't like the idea of going through resellers though

I checked out http://tailoredservers.com/ and wasn't able to come up with pricing anywhere near what you are posting here. Are you sure you aren't mixing up the monthly price with the setup fee?

Like on the machine you listed :
Dual Xeon 2.4GHz 1MB Cache, 2GB ECC DDR, 2 * 36GB 10K DRPM SCSI HDD, RAID1 - $99/mo. + $249 setup

The price I come up with is actually $359/mo and $199 setup.

If you are looking to get into this for the long haul, and want reliability, then don't even think of going with "cheap". Cheap ends up being just that in the end. Garbage, and a nightmare hosting experience.

If you want to consider something truly reliable, feel free to hit me up. But the price will be more then what you are listing above.

Do you own a cheap car, cheap house, cheap cloths? No? Why not? Think about it.

It was a special posted on webhostingtalk which I negotiated down the setup costs
http://webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?t=534159

actually the first dual xeon with the dual 36gb scsis has gone, but the other two can still be had

That's not true at all. I have servers with EV1 since they were rackshack and with the relatively new comer layeredtech. LayeredTech are darn cheap and I have found 100% reliable. Not every cheap server can be found on the main website you know.

Yes, I understand that, and we make deals for people all the time as well. But $99 a month for a Dual Xeon / 2G / 36 SCSI box is obnoxiously cheap. Unless they are getting their equipment off Ebay or something, a 1U server with those specs is going to run at least $2K+. It would take almost 2 years just to pay the box off. Therefore zero income to the company. Something isn't right when hosts offer things that cheap.

One of the following is happening.

Used equipment
Shit equipment

LayeredTech is fairly inexpensive, but not $99 for a dual Xeon. We would be willing to match them, without the setup fee.

Keep in mind, LayeredTech is not multi-homed, we are.

Took a look at the tread. Just want to point out one thing. They enable HT (hyper threading) on any box that will support it. It is a fact that HTing on a web server will not perform as well as a box with out HTing turned on. There are bench marks to prove this.

These people obviously don't know that. I'm not one to sit around and rip other hosts, but it is clear they are amateur.

I'd be happy to give you a quote, but if you're seriously trying to compete with $99 a month for 5mbps and the server specs you mentioned, I can't touch that. That is extremely cheap, even with no management services. For bandwidth alone that would be less than 7 cents per gb, and that hasn't configured in other expenses like hardware, space rental, etc. Makes me wonder what corners their cutting to offer those prices.

If interested in talking, feel free to email me at [email protected] .

That depends on what kernel you are using ;)

http://www.ServerProvider.com/dedicated.html


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Thanks Sami, but your prices are simply way, way too high.

No one can offer a dual xeon with 5mbs bandwith for $99. If they could id take every server they have at that price, close down my hosting operation, sell all my equiptment, and host everything i have with them.

I get $299-$349 a month for 5 mbs and a dual 2.8ghz xeon ibm server, good luck in your quest

We can work out a much better cost than that. If you havent found a host contact me and we can work out a good deal.

SplitInfinity.com has been in business since 1994. That is like 100 years in a offline company. Split provides you with experience and stability. :)

Talked to my buddy Mike over at webair he can beat any price. :) Tell him Valentin sent you and he will take extra good care of you ;)

Mike's icq is 20-458-616

Giver Mike @ webair.com a shout.. good guy, great service, tell him gateway sent you and u get a secret toy suprise

http://webair.com

Sorry TwinTone, I missed this post,

Yes, yes, I understand what you are saying, hence my post here -
I don't really care for dual xeons/opterons whatever, but dual processors/cores would be nice, since I want large threading database intensive serving, hence the ram and scsis...

and LT is Tier1 multihomed.

Have a look at these deals http://layer0.layeredtech.com/showthread.php?t=4205

I have 2 servers with LT and after speaking with Chryl in sales this particular beauty, while sold out in the posted offer, has come back onto the table for me....
:thumbsup :thumbsup

Tier1 Bandwidth does not mean multi-homed bandwidth. Just an FYI. I don't see any indication what so ever that LT is multi-homed. Would be happy to hear from them, and have them prove me wrong. :thumbsup

did you try www.softlayer.com ? sex.com hosts there.

Contact caz or milan from OC3 Networks (304883574). great guys, great service...

Dual xeons for 99/mo is very cheap. for a db server you should have a 2.8 dual xeon with a scsi drive at the very least and i am 200/mo, no set up. those are some good eals you got there. not sure of the quality, but the price is terrific.

Those quotes sound way too cheap. I wouldn't do it, but each to his own.

LT uses SAVVIS, Level3, Sprint, Time Warner, and Broadwing as ISPs.
Sounds multimhomed to me :winkwink:


I think I'll be going with LTs $140 dual Xeon. Seems pretty darn unbeatable:thumbsup

Well all I can really go by is this. They don't own their own IP space, and a lookup on fixed orbit shows them as having a sigle provider being SAVVIS.

http://fixedorbit.com/cgi-bin/cgiip....&submit=Search

maybe he lives on the edge and likes the idea of possibly being down once in a whle :)

I wont comment here... :winkwink:

They don't label their own IP space since they have many private label resellers that don't want layeredtech showing up in a traceroute. Duh.

They have 2 DCs, Databank and SAVVIS. My 2 servers with LT are at teh SAVVIS DC and I've experienced around 30 minutes downtime in over 2.5 years. Now my others at EV1 are up and down like yoyos. Go figure.

Thanks Fris - I've read a lot of great comments and reviews about softlayer, esp their tech support and rapid ticket responses. I'll be getting in contact with them to see what they can do.

Then they would do a SWIP of the IP space, not give them SAVVIS IPs. If they own IP's they would have an AS number.. what is it?

Their own website is sitting on a SAVVIS IP, not their own. What would be the point of this?

Just like i said - If they owned the IP range and had their name on it, then everyone within that ip range would show as LAYEREDTECH-AS or something, which is not what private label reselling is about. If I do the search on my dom names, they show up as SAVVIS and not LayeredTech, which if I bought my server from a reseller, I would want (or at least the reseller would want....)

Well ALL of these "so called" hosts are resellers of LT. Not real private if you ask me.

http://cal.pl
http://rapidelitehosting.com
http://www.bkmedia-hosting.com
http://onwebusa.net
http://dedicatedplace.com
http://maxxd.org
http://unlimited-hosting.biz
http://metropc.ca

All the above are under the IP space SAVVIS has given LT.

Actually LT has their own IP's, but don't have an AS record. Some odd stuff. So it appears SAVVIS announces all their space. But in the end, this still doesn't make them multi-homed. :upsidedow

crikey - you know your stuff. or did your homeork:thumbsup
Either way, all I know (and care for) is I've been with them for over two years and had no problems* - yes their white box configs have had problems, but they've bent over backwards to fix it, and then thrown in some addons to ease the slight pain. Customer support and reliable bandwidth is top priority for me.
_-edit
*no problems, except those slight caveats above :winkwink:
Anyway, close to breaking nice deals with two other providers, which was unexpected

someone had very bad experience with them... are you willing to pay $50 for server restart? :1orglaugh

we can help you out,

btw> for a db server i would go for opteron instead of xeon