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Provider Hardware
I have been wondering about what is the oldest hardware being used out there to host LEBs. Anyone have any interesting stories about providers putting them on ancient servers? I know some recently posted provider on LEB was proudly using Core2Quad servers and I have used a provider that still uses AMD processors from 2005.
DISCUSS!
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SSHvm uses C2Q...
Wondering if I must do a review btw (not very happy)
My free ValueServer has an C2D E6600 ultra capped to 200mhz.
And... I am not sure, but most opterons around have worst performance than all these C2Q cpus.
Umm, What release date do you class as old?
Is there any point to having new hotness when serving from old and busted doesn't seem to cause issues?
Some providers do very well with old hardware. The provider that uses the AMD cpus from 2005 seems to manage them well enough so that I don't notice much difference between them and a provider who uses the latest hotness.
This thread isnt meant to shame anyone (or wasnt!)
Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q9550 @ 2.83GHz
UnixBench: 3199.3
This is personal dedicated server running a cPanel VPS for friends/small clients, 1.5TB of backup disk space and personal projects.
The Core2Quad's are a bit old, but their not that terrible.
I am sure i can find some old Pentium 3 or Pentium 2 if you want to feel the slowness
SonWebHost.com uses P4's
Doing Core2Quad Q9xxx series
. Gonna be rolling out E3's in the future, though.
@Boltersdriveer My Q9550 max'd out at 8gb RAM unfortunately
OneDollarVPS they use intel atoms!
@beard: Yeah
It seems like "Sean" fill his racks with all posible
From newest to some really old gear. But luckily he never overload nodes.
cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep name
model name : Dual Core AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 270
model name : Dual Core AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 270
That's xens04 - oldest gear I am hosted with, but to be fair, I just recieved scheduled maintenance mail where users from this node will be migrated to new node. Beside that I never had some node related issue here so I can't complain.
That's my low, really low cost Indian vps:
cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep name
model name : Intel(R) Atom(TM) CPU D510 @ 1.66GHz
model name : Intel(R) Atom(TM) CPU D510 @ 1.66GHz
model name : Intel(R) Atom(TM) CPU D510 @ 1.66GHz
model name : Intel(R) Atom(TM) CPU D510 @ 1.66GHz
Also no complains regarding performance.
Dual E5440, E3-1230, L5420.
No, per our FAQ Document (http://hostbluff.com/faq/)
"All of our servers run at least 4 MB of RAM and 1 PETABYTE of Storage on our Floppy Disk RAID Array System. All servers run the latest version of Windows ME and Netscape Navigator. We proudly run our own “Pink Elephant” Virtualization Platform. All servers are connected to their own Dial Up Modem however the lines are disconnected most of the time."
So you should assume we do not have any processors in our nodes
Way ahead of you
And processors add too much overhead, especially due to the power consumption
So, we must agree with something...
Slow != Old
For me any Intel netburst stuff is slow. And any AMD < 2.5 ghz is slow.
Just a thought xD
model name : Intel(R) Atom(TM) CPU D510 @ 1.66GHz
model name : Intel(R) Atom(TM) CPU D510 @ 1.66GHz
model name : Intel(R) Atom(TM) CPU D510 @ 1.66GHz
model name : Intel(R) Atom(TM) CPU D510 @ 1.66GHz
Really ATOM CPU's for VPS's?
wow.
What makes it worse is they charge a premium price!
http://www.indianvps.com/vps.html
Well Indian bandwidth is expensive.
http://www.indianvps.com/vps.html
Nooo
With Indian vps I mean location not company name. I pay for this ATOM CPU's VPS $2.25/mont to Hostcat. Not best vps but it work ok. It's a good deal for Indian vps with proper apnic IP without regular reboots. Sadly their old WHT offer isn't available anymore to be shared with LEB community.
Number of cores : 4
CPU frequency : 1666.666 MHz
Total amount of ram : 512 MB
Total amount of swap : 0 MB
System uptime : 99 days, 9:46,
Download speed : (1.46MB/s)
I/O speed : 45.5MB/s
Lowest we have in our racks is a pair of L5320 boxes, one for buyvm+ and the other for dev/internal services
They're both being replaced with E3's this week though.
Francisco
I don't have much old gear left in service,
in Charlotte, AMD 6128 is the oldest thing, and Los Angeles I have 3 old dedicated server customers still on AMD x2's, then a L5520 box is the next oldest thing, the rest is all E3 boxes
@DotVPS Burst.Net uses Intel XEON Processors for their OpenVZ nodes.
Next box I get should be a Dual E5440, I have seen E3-1220 barebones for around the same price but I need the cores.
This is what I got from Tektonic, paying 28$ per month.
CPU model : Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q6600 @ 2.40GHz
Number of cores : 2
CPU frequency : 1304.581 MHz
Total amount of ram : 1024 MB
Total amount of swap : 1024 MB
System uptime : 550 days, 17:32,
Download speed : (45.7MB/s)
I/O speed : 18.3MB/s
I use this script: http://akamaras.com/bench.sh
Packard Bell Colocation
Contact me for prices.
Don't you dare contact me...
18.3MB/s disk IO and a Q6600, that doesn't seem worth $28/mo.
Are you sure that's a plural? I think "they" only have one box...
@DotVPS @yomero We don't have any server with Q6xxx series proc.
Servers are powered by:
AMD Phenom(tm) II X4 965 Processor
Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU X3450 @ 2.67GHz
Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q9300 @ 2.50GHz
Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q9400 @ 2.66GHz
Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU L5410 @ 2.33GHz