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Server with a max power consumption of 100W?
Hello,
I've found a colocation offer which perfectly fits to my budget, but I'm looking for very power-efficient servers.
I've a limit of 100W power max, and unmetered consumption.
Do you have any idea of which kind of servers I can rack?
I would like to install servers with 64GB DDR3L and Xeon, or Ryzen based (thanks to this low consumption).
Do you have any idea?
Thanks,
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would you mind sharing the full specs here ?
Full specs of the colocation offer?
Yes !
Energy: 100W
Electrical consumption: unmetered
Connectivity: /112 IPv6 supplied by U, 1 IPv4 supplied by U
Network: 100Mbps guaranteed
50€/month in France
100W is like light bulb
Intel Nuc is the best you can do.
Can prob do something with an older ryzen apu as those things can underclock pretty well but 100w is pretty limiting.
@Tejy You're going to have to up your power budget if you want to run old xeons or ryzens. Xeons especially since the cpu themselves are typically a 120-140w tdp by themselves. So You're more looking at a pi or a very low power nuc of some sort.
You can get 10Gbps fair usage (200-300TB/m) port from Serverius Meppel at that price, though electricity is not included, but its only 10-20€ extra at max.
Nforce is even cheaper and includes electricity.
I agree , 100W will be used by the CPU alone , if not more since most ryzen CPU's use 100W at least !
It is possible to built something not consuming more than 100W, like mini ITX with Pentium CPU, but it won't be anywhere close to server grade hardware. Network throughput won't allow you to take full advantage of any serious CPU anyway. For 50€ you could get gorgeous VPS or even dedi, why you won't to squeeze some piece of harware between 100W and 100Mbits, and even pay for that?
Grab some Xeon E3****L cpu node. or a Dell Poweredge R230 or something like that and slap in a i5 6600T-series. Low power cpu’s are around enough.
Something like a E3 1260Lv5 would be perfect for you. Grab a SUPERMICRO CSE-512 X11SSQ-L-DE05B with that cpu for example and you’ll have a nice server
A TX100 S3P with a Xeon E3-1220V2, 32 GB DDR 3 and 2 x 500GB Hdd needs 70 watts. But not a redunant power supply.
My own TX100 with a Pentium G2120, 16 GB RAM, 4x HDD and 1x SSD needs a maximum of 75 watts.
https://www.alphr.com/servers/32025/fujitsu-primergy-tx100-s3p-review/
I'm in love with that
Asroc Rack Chassis from
https://www.neweggbusiness.com/product/product.aspx?item=9b-16-775-005
Ryzen 3900 (65w ) is out of stock every where
but you can go 3700 65w https://www.newegg.com/amd-ryzen-7-3700x/p/N82E16819113567?Item=N82E16819113567&Tpk=19-113-567
and then i feel the pain when I check the ram prices
/112 IPv6 = I wouldn't do this. Which provider is it? @yoursunny has to put it on the IPv6 wall of shame.
That's Aquaray (https://www.aquaray.com/en/enterprise-services/#housing).
Some elect server CPU has low power version, especially for Xeons.
But they aren't abundant, thus aren't cheap. It'd be a custom build which will run more expensive.
Might as well look for a new colo offer with a little bit more relaxed power limit.
Isn't this offer superior in every other way?
https://serverius.net/colocation/server-colocation/
Disclaimer: I do not work with them, I am no client there, I have no connections with them except for one old study friend who has a server there.
It'll bite you from one side or from the other. Either you pay for high performance but low el. power hardware like e.g. embedded Zen -or- you pay (relatively) cheap for hardware but much more for colo. Or, in other words, you either pay front-up or you pay spread over time - but pay you do.
In fact, it's one of the major points in hosting mastery to find just the right sweet spot.
You might have an ace up your sleeve without knowing it: Most people actually need much less performance than they think they do. A friend of mine has a dual Xeon 24xxL based dedi with 16 (iirc) phys. cores and plenty of memory that runs quite a lot of stuff, incl. a not small dyn. web site, a DB server, etc. and is hardly even at 50% of its capacity. But: in a benchmark that server would look poor vs. E5-26xxV4, Ryzen etc. On the monthly bill it looks great though and no user of that dedi ever said "meee, it's slow" ...
Shouldn’t be hard to do with a modern low TDP cpu. Lmao at the comments saying embedded systems/NUCs, 100w can go way further than those. Go easy on number of sticks of ram, number of disks and forego IPMI if you can. Get the best efficiency PSU you can with an ideal wattage for your load (efficiency varies a bit by load). Choose efficient fans and as few as possible. Consider limiting cpu performance / power states.
In short easy enough if you are building it yourself, but off the shelf will be a challenge. Whether you can do better for the money is another question - 50 eur/mo will go far with some providers, and the power limits prevent you from really taking advantage of colocation over renting - you can’t cram in disks.
Some time ago I was running XeonD-based SuperMicro server. With 4xSSD, 4xDIMM & 10Gbit NIC it was running at ~25W/idle and no more than 50W/max...
Is there anyone in the "hobbyist colo" space? Could be shared 100mbit, NAT IPv4 + reverse proxy and IPv6, non-redundant power, closet vs data center, etc.
Alternately, anyone squeezing multiple consumer ITX mobos and switch into a 2U case?
I do hobbyist colo.
Micro colo - like an intel Nuc, RPI, ubiquiti edgerouter, etc,
$10 - Colo / 100Mbps link fair use.
$25 - Colo / 1Gbps Link fair use.
I don't have it listed yet. but send me a message and can get you setup.
Highly recommend DataIdeas. I have a Raspberry Pi with them and it's been flawless. Josh even went out of his way to help me get a certain type of USB HDD and microSD card I wanted, hooked it all up and imaged to my specs... Stellar service!
Cool! How would you handle any hands-on support (reboot, insert rescue USB, etc)?
Just put in a ticket and well get it done.
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Now if want us to change out RAM or HDD/SSD. Basically if have to go inside of the chassis/enclosure then well want a bone (Well take a rib only
What's the point of colocation when you can get decent dedi for this money?
I wouldn't pay that much, but... If you had some custom gear like AI coprocessors, or extreme amounts of ram/nvme it might make sense.