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WholeSaleInternet Dual Xeon L5420 Dedicated for $39/m (from WHT)

biplabbiplab Member
edited January 2013 in Offers

WSI have been offering this - https://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?t=1232921 for the past few weeks. I noticed that nobody mentioned about this offer. So I decided to post it here.

Offer text from WHT thread-

Dual Quad Core Xeon 5420 (2.5Ghz, 8 physical cores)
8GB RAM
250GB SATA Hard Drive
100Mbit Unmetered Port
5 usable IPv4 IPs
Linux
Free Love

>

$0 Setup - $39 per month when you use the code: 15off

I got my server about 2 weeks ago. With dual 250 GB HDD it costs $45/month which, I think, is a very good deal.

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  • pubcrawlerpubcrawler Banned
    edited January 2013

    $39/mo for 8GB and 250GB drive... ummm yeah... lots of CPU there though.

    The offer from my perspective is fine. Nothing too exciting.

    Would like to see it even less though.

    100Mbit unmetered is pretty good :)

  • biplabbiplab Member

    @pubcrawler said: The offer from my perspective is fine. Nothing too exciting.

    Their network is pretty good. Comes with Native IPV6 (if it matters).

    @pubcrawler said: 100Mbit unmetered is pretty good :)

    They mentioned in a WHT post that servers are connected via 1Gbps line. Only upload is capped at 100 Mbps.

  • IshaqIshaq Member

    This was already posted.

  • biplabbiplab Member

    @biplab said: They mentioned in a WHT post that servers are connected via 1Gbps line. Only upload is capped at 100 Mbps.

    Did a speed test to verify this.

    [[email protected] ~]# wget http://cachefly.cachefly.net/100mb.test -O /dev/null
--2013-01-31 20:12:49--  http://cachefly.cachefly.net/100mb.test
Resolving cachefly.cachefly.net... 205.234.175.175
Connecting to cachefly.cachefly.net|205.234.175.175|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 104857600 (100M) [application/octet-stream]
Saving to: “/dev/null”

100%[======================================>] 104,857,600 42.1M/s   in 2.4s

2013-01-31 20:12:52 (42.1 MB/s) - “/dev/null” saved [104857600/104857600]
  • biplabbiplab Member

    @Ishaq said: This was already posted.

    Sorry, I can't find that post.

    Anyway if it was posted earlier then this thread can be closed.

  • IshaqIshaq Member

    It was posted here, http://www.lowendtalk.com/discussion/7333/cheap-as-f-constant-dedi

  • draziloxdrazilox Member
    edited January 2013

    @ishaq that was totally diffrent.

    edit: oops my bad, I thought you ment the first post.

  • biplabbiplab Member

    Ah, didn't notice that post. Anyway this thread may help others who didn't notice it. :)

  • IshaqIshaq Member

    @biplab said: Ah, didn't notice that post. Anyway this thread may help others who didn't notice it. :)

    I guess so.

  • pubcrawlerpubcrawler Banned

    Their network is pretty good. Comes with Native IPV6 (if it matters).

    Yep, I know all about their network. Have a VPS there and colo :)

    My only gripe is the drive. RAM second but a minor point.

  • jarjar Member, Patron Provider

    @pubcrawler said: My only gripe is the drive.

    I bet they'd be glad to up their margin by keeping the price the same and using a drive you shipped, making you responsible for replacement. It'd still be a good deal with 100mbit unmetered, given that their network is supposedly good.

  • pubcrawlerpubcrawler Banned

    Their network is real good @jarland.

    That's why I still have a colo unit there :)

    Shipping own drive is an option. They are a bit odd about that though from prior inquiry and don't believe they have on site storage for spares you can stash there.

  • shovenoseshovenose Member, Host Rep

    I think I asked them about the drive thing a while back "we don't mix customer equipment with ours"

  • flyfly Member
    edited January 2013

    this is pretty sweet. i got one running minecraft atm. great deal

    it's funny because it's actually $10 less than their dual core atom listing rofl

  • yomeroyomero Member

    @biplap
    Do you know if these servers come with KVM/IPMI
    And any kind of remote OS install?

  • biplabbiplab Member
    edited January 2013

    @yomero,

    In WHT thread they mentioned that they provide KVM/IPMI. You can request them. There is no remote OS install facility in their control panel.

    I repartitioned & reinstalled os using CentOS net install over vnc.

  • yomeroyomero Member

    @biplab said: I repartitioned & reinstalled os using CentOS net install over vnc.

    How you did this? :S
    Any tutorial?
    Found this for example http://www.nux.ro/archive/2011/01/CentOS_install_over_VNC.html but I am not sure :D

  • biplabbiplab Member

    You can use that tutorial.

    Remember to use correct path of kernel and initrd in grub.conf. If there is a separate boot partition then your kernel & initrd lines will be-

    kernel /vmlinuz
initrd /initrd

    Also a stable internet connection will help as if you get disconnected during install process you may not able to log into vnc again.

  • yomeroyomero Member

    Pretty interesting
    And risky xD
    But I am more a Debian guy, and I can't find something similar. Do you know something for Debian?
    Probably I will buy one and will use the stock OS hehe

  • lbftlbft Member

    @pubcrawler said: Shipping own drive is an option. They are a bit odd about that though from prior inquiry and don't believe they have on site storage for spares you can stash there.

    @shovenose said: I think I asked them about the drive thing a while back "we don't mix customer equipment with ours"

    They said here that it was OK if someone sent them an SSD to install.

  • pubcrawlerpubcrawler Banned

    Well @lbft, good find.

    Wii-Aaron is the owner of things there, what he says is gospel. He's a good guy.

    Glad to see Wholesale getting more flexible about drives. But suspect SSDs are fine but not spinning disk, since they don't sell SSDs or costly otherwise...

  • earlearl Member
    edited February 2013

    Disregard I just posted in a new thread

  • yomeroyomero Member

    I got my server yesterday

    And got the server rebuild again with new drives because the first ones were f* up.

    The new drives are better, but one of them seems to be slow compared with the second one. I will be monitoring this.

    So far, so good.

    Also, I am learning this IPMI/DRAC stuff :P

  • biplabbiplab Member

    @yomero said: But I am more a Debian guy, and I can't find something similar. Do you know something for Debian?

    Debian doesn't have installation over VNC option.

  • earlearl Member

    @yomero said: Also, I am learning this IPMI/DRAC stuff :P

    So did they give you Drac? mine is not it just says embedded server manager also did they give you a free IP for this or did they use one of your 5 IP's that was included with your server?

  • yomeroyomero Member

    @earl said: mine is not it just says embedded server manager

    That is DRAC :P

    And yes, is in one of these IPs

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