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rock paper scissor
@vmhaus thanks for that but also i am asking for opinion about the recommended budget as i said before. pay to test strategy is really wired point of view . but since you are sure of that can you tell me which providers will have my requirements and provide the paid test area?
for your age i am sure you have something more mature .. come on let us know your strategy .
judging without strategy is N00B concept which i doubt you are
Double blind test. You deposit cash with a provider, you test their network, and then you choose to use them or not! Then you stab both of your eyes out with a writing implement.
The only guy on this forum willing to be this flexible I'd say is Clouvider. As a customer of his, I'm sure Anthony & his other customers will vouch for that.
@WSS this is called moneywasteridot strategy .. you should at least look at vmhaus strategy of trial .
@vmhaus thanks .. let's see @clouvider is willing to offer someting or not
thanks a lot for your help
@Clouvider isn't in the business of giving away free machines, last I checked. Good luck finding a reputable host who will give you a week for free.
From our last conversation earlier today, he's at the DC provisioning orders from Black Friday. Should be about soon
I can arrange the private network and probably the 2x 500GB SSDs, but would be no where near the OP's budget. And definitely no trial.
No one can offer you E3, 32GB and 2x500GB SSD for $40/mo.
Hi, nothing cheaper than those I'm afraid.
https://console.clouvider.co.uk/cart/black-friday-2017-sale/&step=0
Private network, including across sites is not a problem.
Thank you all for the recommendation.
Why do you need SSDs?
Private network is not a problem for any provider who has their own HW but your budget is really too low. The SSDs make it even more tricky.
If you don't mind a couple gens old (E3v2 or E5v1) and using HDDs, and your actual public data transfer is actually relatively low, then it may be possible.
But 100Mbit cost more than $40 with a few exceptions so if you really hammer that 100Mbit, it's pretty much an impossibility.
However, you said this is for a lab for students essentially, which means they should not actually be using that much REAL traffic. It should be mostly local traffic, which is fine. But if you need even a modest amount of bandwidth, running in the cheapest locales, then with HDDs, I do not see this going for less than $60 /month.
Now for the 'free trial' part. What exactly do yo want to test? Since you are asking about dedicated servers, it should not be a test of the hardware since you should know whether or not the hardware meets your requirements prior to testing. So it should be just about testing the network. In which case, what are your network requirements? You have not listed this.
Try and be more specific about what it is you are looking for and what are your must haves. Then you might get some offers.
what standar price for that spec?
with cheap SSD's - $70-80/mo.
with enterprise SSD's - $90-110/mo.
Assuming 'entry level Enterprise'. High end enterprise SSDs cost a small fortune!
You're going to need a RAID card in that configuration too if you want to use RAID-1 with ESXI - it doesn't support fake RAID.
Forgot about that. Too true.
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I'm unsure how this offer is linked to this thread exactly but okay.
Link not working
And if not SSD?
This offer is over I’m afraid. Black Friday offers were stretch until Sunday. What was left was sold on the early hours of Cyber Monday thanks to @Nekki.
We won’t be able to match the Black Friday prices I’m afraid, sorry :-(
Who said I need Black Friday offer ?
Your budget did. @Clouvider doesn’t usually do servers at $40.
@nekki I asked multiple times about the proper budget
If U.S. is not a problem check out http://dacentec.com
Nope.
Check the thread page1
Any how here is it again what is the proper budget
Check my reply where I said ‘Nope’.
I hope this concludes matters.