WholeSaleInternet $10 servers

david_W

Let's go grab the E5!!!!

entrailz

All aboard the hype train CHOOCHOO

spammy

@Hxxx said:
One disk servers, such risk. That's the only thing holding me back.

Also struggling now...the disk space is a bigger issue for me however....

garhhh...decisions decisions....

FredQc

@Setsura said:
Looks like the 50USD dual E5 is up now

System Info
-----------
Processor       : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2670 0 @ 2.60GHz
CPU Cores       : 32
Frequency       : 2999.851 MHz
Memory          : 32068 MB
Swap            :  MB
Uptime          : 34 min,

OS              : \S
Arch            : x86_64 (64 Bit)
Kernel          : 3.10.0-327.el7.x86_64
Hostname        : lameserver.wholesaleinternet.net


Speedtest (IPv4 only)
---------------------
Your public IPv4 is xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx

Location                Provider        Speed
CDN                     Cachefly        59.9MB/s

Atlanta, GA, US         Coloat          60.2MB/s 
Dallas, TX, US          Softlayer       78.3MB/s 
Seattle, WA, US         Softlayer       41.8MB/s 
San Jose, CA, US        Softlayer       42.7MB/s 
Washington, DC, US      Softlayer       59.5MB/s 

Tokyo, Japan            Linode          1.13MB/s 
Singapore               Softlayer       9.24MB/s 

Rotterdam, Netherlands  id3.net         18.1MB/s
Haarlem, Netherlands    Leaseweb        206MB/s 


Disk Speed
----------
I/O (1st run)   : 377 MB/s
I/O (2nd run)   : 361 MB/s
I/O (3rd run)   : 354 MB/s
Average I/O     : 364 MB/s


=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Device Model:     CT240BX200SSD1
Serial Number:    1609F017E581
LU WWN Device Id: 5 00a075 1f017e581
Firmware Version: MU02.6
User Capacity:    240,057,409,536 bytes [240 GB]
Sector Sizes:     512 bytes logical, 4096 bytes physical
Rotation Rate:    Solid State Device
Device is:        Not in smartctl database [for details use: -P showall]
ATA Version is:   ACS-2 (minor revision not indicated)
SATA Version is:  SATA 3.1, 6.0 Gb/s (current: 6.0 Gb/s)

david_W

@FredQc said:
lameserver.wholesaleinternet.net

windytime90

I have tried too many times and still cannot install Windows server on my WSI server. I have tried with all template of joodle and my own template with pre-installed network driver, still cannot boot, sigh...

MarkTurner

windytime90 said: I have tried too many times and still cannot install Windows server on my WSI server. I have tried with all template of joodle and my own template with pre-installed network driver, still cannot boot, sigh...

And thats what a KVM is for......

entrailz

Geekbench from windows:

http://browser.primatelabs.com/geekbench3/5801030

Sady

Too bad that additional ips are expensive:(

rdes

@MarkTurner: that's what DC staff for. Attaching 4 GB ISO using ancient IE version with deprecated Java because nothing else work properly with all this old DRACs and other iLOs is dubious pleasure.. .

andrewn

I guess they don't provide IPMI for these cheap servers.....

MarkTurner

rdes said: MarkTurner: that's what DC staff for. Attaching 4 GB ISO using ancient IE version with deprecated Java because nothing else work properly with all this old DRACs and other iLOs is dubious pleasure.. .

There is a knack to it But it starts with not using IE and mounting media on ILO via the Java applet is not the way to do it for best performance.

entrailz

Was able to load Windows on my $49 server by changing the post request for the OS reload to that of the value for the more expensive servers.

andrewn

@entrailz said:
Was able to load Windows on my $49 server by changing the post request for the OS reload to that of the value for the more expensive servers.

huh?

entrailz

@andrewn said:
huh?

In the server control panel theres an option called "Reload Operating System", this takes you to a page with dropdowns. On this page in chrome you can edit the element and set one of the values to "OCS - Windows 2008 English Enterprise (Evaluation)" (i replaced ubuntu), then submit the edited one and it will reload it with Windows.

shovenose

@entrailz said:
Was able to load Windows on my $49 server by changing the post request for the OS reload to that of the value for the more expensive servers.

that's hilarious!

entrailz

@shovenose said:

Yeah I can assume the code side hasn't been implemented for the other operating systems, but I assumed it would work since its technically the same machine. (Just less RAM/drive space), although you need to allocate the leftover 190~gb since it only assigns 30-40gb to the Windows drive.

AaronW

Nirvana said: Why not selling more configurations with SSD + HDD? It's always useful if you have some extra storage space.

True. It has to do mainly with product life cycle. a 2TH HDD costs me just as much as a 240GB SSD but the SSD is going to last me a good 4 years (life cycle, maybe not the hardware itself) where as the 2TB HDD is going to unwanted in a year. Especially with the rate at which SSD prices are falling.

AaronW

spammy said: Also struggling now...the disk space is a bigger issue for me however....

garhhh...decisions decisions....

There will be dual disk options in the next week or so if you want to wait. Dual 240s, 480s and 960s.

AaronW

windytime90 said: I have tried too many times and still cannot install Windows server on my WSI server. I have tried with all template of joodle and my own template with pre-installed network driver, still cannot boot, sigh...

On which config?

AaronW

entrailz said: Yeah I can assume the code side hasn't been implemented for the other operating systems, but I assumed it would work since its technically the same machine. (Just less RAM/drive space), although you need to allocate the leftover 190~gb since it only assigns 30-40gb to the Windows drive.

Someone just hadn't clicked the checkbox for those OS'. As long as they're the same platform the images will work.

entrailz

@AaronW

Just want to make sure its OK for me to have installed Windows the way I did haha?

windytime90

AaronW said: On which config?

It's $10 box with E5300 CPU. Network card is Intel 82574L. I have tried to make my own template with driver support for this network card but no luck. I even don't know what I'm wrong. lol

andrewn

@AaronW any chance for Windows support on these $10 servers?

entrailz

@andrewn said:
AaronW any chance for Windows support on these $10 servers?

You can try do what I said above, but change the option to "E3 - Windows 2012 English Standard (Evaluation)" or " HP - Windows 2008 English Standard (Evaluation)"

andrewn

@entrailz said:
You can try do what I said above, but change the option to "E3 - Windows 2012 English Standard (Evaluation)" or " HP - Windows 2008 English Standard (Evaluation)"

I already tried that:) no luck.

entrailz

@andrewn said:
I already tried that:) no luck.

Ah I assume sadly their default ISO's dont have the driver for the 82574L

windytime90

@entrailz said:
Ah I assume sadly their default ISO's dont have the driver for the 82574L

I have made my own template and add 82574L driver, still no luck. Didn't know why.:D

spammy

@andrewn said:
AaronW any chance for Windows support on these $10 servers?

windytime90 said: I have made my own template and add 82574L driver, still no luck. Didn't know why.:D

Here is my thought, grab one of these 49 bucks server (or something cheaper with a proper KVM), and mount this 10 bucks server as an iScsi target (https://help.ubuntu.com/lts/serverguide/iscsi-initiator.html), now you get a very powerful computational server and a large HDD storage (500GB if you have C2D). With the 1Gbit connection (I hope) there won't be too much lagging.

Now the question for @AaronW is if internal traffic is counted, if not then this plan would be perfect.

The other idea is to get them to replace the network card...however I am not sure if WSI is willing to go through that much trouble for probably a buck or two of monthly profit.

akhfa

I got the $15 server

Benchmark started on Min Mar 27 05:03:13 CDT 2016
Full benchmark log: /root/bench.log

System Info
-----------
Processor       : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU           X3220  @ 2.40GHz
CPU Cores       : 4
Frequency       : 1600.000 MHz
Memory          : 3781 MB
Swap            :  MB
Uptime          : 27 min,

OS              : \S
Arch            : x86_64 (64 Bit)
Kernel          : 3.10.0-327.el7.x86_64
Hostname        : 

Speedtest (IPv4 only)
---------------------
Your public IPv4 is xx.xx.xx.xx

Location                Provider        Speed
CDN                     Cachefly        101MB/s

Atlanta, GA, US         Coloat          57,9MB/s 
Dallas, TX, US          Softlayer       80,2MB/s 
Seattle, WA, US         Softlayer       40,6MB/s 
San Jose, CA, US        Softlayer       37,5MB/s 
Washington, DC, US      Softlayer       13,8MB/s 

Tokyo, Japan            Linode          7,61MB/s 
Singapore               Softlayer       9,17MB/s 

Rotterdam, Netherlands  id3.net         20,8MB/s
Haarlem, Netherlands    Leaseweb        95,0MB/s 


Disk Speed
----------
I/O (1st run)   : 1 MB/s
I/O (2nd run)   : 5 MB/s
I/O (3rd run)   : 3 MB/s
Average I/O     : 3 MB/s

dd if=/dev/zero of=/root/testfile bs=1G count=1 oflag=direct
1+0 records in
1+0 records out
1073741824 bytes (1,1 GB) copied, 12,1494 s, 88,4 MB/s

smartctl 6.2 2013-07-26 r3841 [x86_64-linux-3.10.0-327.el7.x86_64] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2002-13, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org

=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Model Family:     Western Digital Caviar Blue (SATA)
Device Model:     WDC WD7500AAKS-22RBA0
Serial Number:    WD-WCAPT0398708
LU WWN Device Id: 5 0014ee 255e1266e
Firmware Version: 30.04G30
User Capacity:    750.155.292.160 bytes [750 GB]
Sector Size:      512 bytes logical/physical
Device is:        In smartctl database [for details use: -P show]
ATA Version is:   ATA/ATAPI-7 (minor revision not indicated)
Local Time is:    Sun Mar 27 05:12:59 2016 CDT
SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability.
SMART support is: Enabled

=== START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===
SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED

General SMART Values:
Offline data collection status:  (0x84) Offline data collection activity
                                        was suspended by an interrupting command from host.
                                        Auto Offline Data Collection: Enabled.
Self-test execution status:      (   0) The previous self-test routine completed
                                        without error or no self-test has ever 
                                        been run.
Total time to complete Offline 
data collection:                (16800) seconds.
Offline data collection
capabilities:                    (0x7b) SMART execute Offline immediate.
                                        Auto Offline data collection on/off support.
                                        Suspend Offline collection upon new
                                        command.
                                        Offline surface scan supported.
                                        Self-test supported.
                                        Conveyance Self-test supported.
                                        Selective Self-test supported.
SMART capabilities:            (0x0003) Saves SMART data before entering
                                        power-saving mode.
                                        Supports SMART auto save timer.
Error logging capability:        (0x01) Error logging supported.
                                        General Purpose Logging supported.
Short self-test routine 
recommended polling time:        (   2) minutes.
Extended self-test routine
recommended polling time:        ( 207) minutes.
Conveyance self-test routine
recommended polling time:        (   6) minutes.
SCT capabilities:              (0x303f) SCT Status supported.
                                        SCT Error Recovery Control supported.
                                        SCT Feature Control supported.
                                        SCT Data Table supported.

SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 16
Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds:
ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME          FLAG     VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE      UPDATED  WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE
  1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate     0x000f   200   200   051    Pre-fail  Always       -       0
  3 Spin_Up_Time            0x0003   196   184   021    Pre-fail  Always       -       7175
  4 Start_Stop_Count        0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       114
  5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct   0x0033   200   200   140    Pre-fail  Always       -       0
  7 Seek_Error_Rate         0x000e   200   200   051    Old_age   Always       -       0
  9 Power_On_Hours          0x0032   055   054   000    Old_age   Always       -       32998
 10 Spin_Retry_Count        0x0012   100   100   051    Old_age   Always       -       0
 11 Calibration_Retry_Count 0x0012   100   100   051    Old_age   Always       -       0
 12 Power_Cycle_Count       0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       113
192 Power-Off_Retract_Count 0x0032   200   200   000    Old_age   Always       -       291
193 Load_Cycle_Count        0x0032   200   200   000    Old_age   Always       -       331
194 Temperature_Celsius     0x0022   109   078   000    Old_age   Always       -       43
196 Reallocated_Event_Count 0x0032   200   200   000    Old_age   Always       -       0
197 Current_Pending_Sector  0x0012   200   200   000    Old_age   Always       -       0
198 Offline_Uncorrectable   0x0010   200   200   000    Old_age   Offline      -       0
199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count    0x003e   200   200   000    Old_age   Always       -       0
200 Multi_Zone_Error_Rate   0x0008   200   200   051    Old_age   Offline      -       0

SMART Error Log Version: 1
No Errors Logged

SMART Self-test log structure revision number 1
Num  Test_Description    Status                  Remaining  LifeTime(hours)  LBA_of_first_error
# 1  Short offline       Completed without error       00%     25024         -
# 2  Short offline       Completed without error       00%     24978         -
# 3  Extended offline    Aborted by host               90%       605         -
# 4  Short offline       Completed without error       00%       605         -

SMART Selective self-test log data structure revision number 1
 SPAN  MIN_LBA  MAX_LBA  CURRENT_TEST_STATUS
    1        0        0  Not_testing
    2        0        0  Not_testing
    3        0        0  Not_testing
    4        0        0  Not_testing
    5        0        0  Not_testing
Selective self-test flags (0x0):
  After scanning selected spans, do NOT read-scan remainder of disk.
If Selective self-test is pending on power-up, resume after 0 minute delay.

I think I'm lucky here. Get 750 GB instead of 500 GB.

Is this really 100 Mbps unmetered @AaronW ? The speedtest is over 100 Mbps....