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I only ever built two VM host nodes.
This is my latest, circa 2013.
2x Xeon E5-2680 0 @ 2.70GHz
128GB RAM
4TB SAS HDD primary disk
3x 2TB SATA HDD additional disk
2x 1Gbps uplink
Virtualization platform: VirtualBox
Control software: vagrant
As for yoursunny summer host, it's not virtual machines.
We give you actual penguins.
It's 36–24–36.
Oh la la.
Intel Pentium 4 Extreme
2GB DDR2
10GB HDD
4 Floppy Disks
^ That's my latest and newest node!
Oh wow, imagine when you hit that "Turbo" button - might even be able to run Doom on that baby lol
This is the most recent dedicated server I had, around 2010:
That was cheap at the time.
This was before LXC existed, so I ran a bunch of Linux-Vserver containers on it.
For countries with cheap power dual X5670s and X5680s (=260W and 46 Passmark per Watt)
Normal (eg. West EU) - Dual E5-2670s (=230W and 68 Passmark per Watt)
Expensive (in my case Africa) - AMD Ryzen 7 1600Xs (=65W and 190 Passmark per Watt)
128GB RAM for Xeons (Reg ECC), 64GB for Ryzen (Unbuffered ECC).
Drives vary, mostly 2TB HDDs and random mix of SSDs.
simple :
2 Core CPU
2 GB RAM
22 GB Pure SSD
200 GB BW
KVM
1 ipv4
/48 ipv6
Singapore
$9 / year of course
Intel i7-6700K
64 GB DDR4 2133 MHz
480 GB SSD + 500GB Backup Space (CIFS)
65.45 eur/monthly
Latest server for a hypervisor for me:
Dell R640 with:
Dual silver 4114
256GB RAM
2x480GB SSD (PM883) for OS
4x1.92TB SSD (PM883) for VM storage
10g SFP+ NIC
I only use it for internal VMs.
The server was 2846 euro including 10 caddies, rails, idrac license, redundant PSUs, hardware raid etc.
Drives were bought separately.
Not cheap, but serves me well - the amount of stuff I managed to cancel to consolidate exceeded the cost of the server within 12 months anyway.
Fucking zoomers.
Did I forgot to say, this heavy badass server runs with dialup internet? A 100 Gigabit uplink can't even compete with that
Provider?
Do you buy new hardware? Why would anyone do that....
The turbo button makes the CPU run slower.
I'll list an internal hypervisor we use. (Proxmox node)
Dell R6415
AMD EPYC 7551P (32c/64t)
96 GB DDR4
2x960GB Intel DC S4500 SSD (RAID-1)
6x960GB Samsung PM1633a 12Gbps SAS SSD (RAID-10)
2x10Gbps LACP fiber uplinks
Paid $730 for the server with a lower processor and like 16GB RAM. After upgrades to the CPU, RAM, and disks I think it came out to around $2k. I really scored a deal on this one.