Looking for dedicated server

TehEnforce

I need a dedicated server that has a good enough CPU for running FFMPEG at a reasonable speed for converting video files to .mp4 The server also needs to have enough RAM and CPU to run a LNMP stack and Exim4 + Dovecot. Site will be low traffic.

Must accept PayPal

Budget: $40< per month

CFarence

I think Delimiters Duel X5150 promo is still going on, its $20 per month. I don't know how well the processors do with converting files though, never tried it before. Maybe @MarkTurner can tell us how well they will do.

MarkTurner

@CFarence - I have never tried it but it maybe interesting to work out a set of benchmarks that people want to see and time permitting we'll run the benchmarks across each server type.

TehEnforce

@CFarence said:
I think Delimiters Duel X5150 promo is still going on, its $20 per month. I don't know how well the processors do with converting files though, never tried it before. Maybe MarkTurner can tell us how well they will do.

Delimiters promo looks like a real good offer. Im now real curious to how well they do aswell.

@MarkTurner said:
CFarence - I have never tried it but it maybe interesting to work out a set of benchmarks that people want to see and time permitting we'll run the benchmarks across each server type.

Benchmarks seems like a really good idea

FredQc

Dual X5150 Delimiters UnixBench is 1700pts

i5-3570s Kimsufi KS-4 UnixBench is 6900pts

SeerKan

Why not try a vps ?

MarkTurner

@FredQC that sounds like you have dynamic power mode enabled, you should retry in high power mode and disable cpu scaling.

TehEnforce

@FredQc said:
Dual X5150 Delimiters UnixBench is 1700pts

i5-3570s Kimsufi KS-4 UnixBench is 6900pts

Nice. Kimsufi's result looks damn sexy! However curious how the Dual X5150 will perform witrh the mode MarkTurner suggested.

@SeerKan said:
Why not try a vps ?

Video converting takes up ALOT of CPU. If I go ahead and use a VPS I will be like instantly terminated or either the neighbours will go insane and rip off the support team's skin.

@FlipHost and @concerto49
Could you guys put out a offer for me?

FredQc

@MarkTurner said:
FredQC that sounds like you have dynamic power mode enabled, you should retry in high power mode and disable cpu scaling.

???

MarkTurner

@TehEnforce @FredQC - just ran it and got:

Benchmark Run: Sun Jun 22 2014 22:52:27 - 23:21:01

4 CPUs in system; running 4 parallel copies of tests

Dhrystone 2 using register variables       98311454.2 lps   (10.0 s, 7 samples)

Double-Precision Whetstone                    11728.8 MWIPS (9.9 s, 7 samples)

Execl Throughput                              12179.8 lps   (29.5 s, 2 samples)

File Copy 1024 bufsize 2000 maxblocks        414039.2 KBps  (30.0 s, 2 samples)

File Copy 256 bufsize 500 maxblocks          124178.6 KBps  (30.0 s, 2 samples)

File Copy 4096 bufsize 8000 maxblocks       1030824.3 KBps  (30.0 s, 2 samples)

Pipe Throughput                             4801680.0 lps   (10.0 s, 7 samples)

Pipe-based Context Switching                 947232.0 lps   (10.0 s, 7 samples)

Process Creation                              31010.3 lps   (30.0 s, 2 samples)

Shell Scripts (1 concurrent)                  15164.7 lpm   (60.0 s, 2 samples)

Shell Scripts (8 concurrent)                   2040.3 lpm   (60.0 s, 2 samples)

System Call Overhead                        3099900.7 lps   (10.0 s, 7 samples)

System Benchmarks Index Values               BASELINE       RESULT    INDEX

Dhrystone 2 using register variables         116700.0   98311454.2   8424.3

Double-Precision Whetstone                       55.0      11728.8   2132.5

Execl Throughput                                 43.0      12179.8   2832.5

File Copy 1024 bufsize 2000 maxblocks          3960.0     414039.2   1045.6

File Copy 256 bufsize 500 maxblocks            1655.0     124178.6    750.3

File Copy 4096 bufsize 8000 maxblocks          5800.0    1030824.3   1777.3

Pipe Throughput                               12440.0    4801680.0   3859.9

Pipe-based Context Switching                   4000.0     947232.0   2368.1

Process Creation                                126.0      31010.3   2461.1

Shell Scripts (1 concurrent)                     42.4      15164.7   3576.6

Shell Scripts (8 concurrent)                      6.0       2040.3   3400.5

System Call Overhead                          15000.0    3099900.7   2066.6

                                                                   ========

System Benchmarks Index Score                                        2418.9

Its not mega fast

@TehEnforce - what is your budget for this?

serverian

@MarkTurner said:
TehEnforce - what is your budget for this?

Budget: $40< per month

concerto49

TehEnforce said: @FlipHost and @concerto49 Could you guys put out a offer for me?

Don't have anything less than $40/month.

MarkTurner

@Serverian proves I can't read then doesn't it

@TehEnforce - for $40 you have these options:

Dual L5420, 16GB, 1TB disk - http://www.delimitervps.com/landingpage/blades/?p=L5420161000&l=Atlanta

or

Dual X5150, 16GB 500GB disk - http://www.delimitervps.com/landingpage/blades/?p=X515016500&l=Atlanta

SeerKan

TehEnforce said:

@SeerKan said: Why not try a vps ?

Video converting takes up ALOT of CPU. If I go ahead and use a VPS I will be like instantly terminated or either the neighbours will go insane and rip off the support team's skin.

Not if you have dedicated CPU on the vps Of course if you choose a low budget vps you will be terminated due tot the shared cpu, but if it's something with 1-2-3 dedicated cpu's you could use 100% all the time without affecting anybody else.

zevus

From hetzner robot:

Intel Core i7-2600 8307 16 GB 2 x 3 TB 41.00 € 53h 22m

after removing VAT, 34.45, convert EUR to USD, $46.84 for 8307 passmark benchmark, 16 gb of ram, and 6 tb of space. it is much better than trash l5420's,

if you want to strictly stay within that budget, i don't see any right now, but the i7-950's will drop to 35 euro, which would be right at $40 after removing vat and convering. it is about 1.75x faster than dual l5420. x5150 is also horrible. and remember that this video encoding won't be 100% efficienct with all these extra threads, it is generally better to have less, better threads

or get the next i7 2600 when it's at $35 on seflow.it

zevus

Oh, you can also wait for the next online.net throwoff e3-1230v1 to become available on oneprovider,

http://oneprovider.com/dedicated-servers/paris-france

I used to have about 20 of those. They will be about 40% faster than the dual L5420 and when I had them a few months ago, it was $39.50 a month. Not sure how much exchange rate has changed.