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How many VPS could you host...

shovenoseshovenose Member, Host Rep
edited February 2013 in General

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Would be nice to get a 42U rack full...
How many VPS could it host, you think? And do you think it could be profitable at $7/month?
Just a funny though; not being entirely serious here.

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  • DamianDamian Member
    edited February 2013

    You're missing a RAID controller. And the chassis you've chosen can hold 8 drives.

    Despite the allure of the 8-core E5-2680 processor, they're NOT worth the 400x markup over an E5-1620.

    TBH, you could build three E3-1670 v2-powered nodes for roughly the same price, complete with RAID controllers and SSD cache for mechanical hard drives, and then not have all of your eggs in one basket, too.

  • gubbytegubbyte Member

    Using PayPal on Nightly?

    OH NO

  • shovenoseshovenose Member, Host Rep
    edited February 2013

    @Damian: can't use softRAID? and doesn't that Supermicro have built in RAID?
    I was aiming for crazy density... that's why I would go for RAID10 SSD. you think I could fit 1,000 VPS on there?

  • curtisgcurtisg Banned

    Why don't you just get a E5-2650 (which I believe holds up to 512GB of ram).

  • pubcrawlerpubcrawler Banned

    I wouldn't even bother with that.

    For 10K I could pack so much CPU and disk it would make that server look like a wrist watch.

  • shovenoseshovenose Member, Host Rep
    edited February 2013

    You think that config would fit 1000 OpenVZ VPS... that is the goal :P
    That's 42,000 VPS per rack, well let's say we need 2U for switches, so 40 servers and 2 switches, so 40,000 VPS customers per rack... get 10 rack space, that's 400,000 VPS in a single cage :)

  • DamianDamian Member
    edited February 2013

    @shovenose said: can't use softRAID?

    If you're already spending $9.3k on a server, spend another $800 for an LSI 9265-8i controller :P

    http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816118160 highly recommended

  • pubcrawlerpubcrawler Banned

    Uggh! 1000 customers on a box.

    Is this some sort of provider orgy to see who can pack the most customers in the least resources and have the biggest kaboom when it comes crashing down?

  • NHRoelNHRoel Member

    @shovenose said: You think that config would fit 1000 OpenVZ VPS... that is the goal :P

    Ever wonder how you are going to reboot this node and what is going to happen when you do so? Not mention, power consumption,.

  • rskrsk Member, Host Rep

    @shovenose not worth it. I'd rather pick more servers instead of one big one.

  • curtisgcurtisg Banned

    Correction, e5-2650 can hold up to 750GB of ram.

  • NHRoelNHRoel Member

    @curtisg said: 750GB

    With that much of ram, your biggest limiting factor will be iops.

  • shovenoseshovenose Member, Host Rep

    @rsk: but why? it would save money in physcial space. imagine how many people you could host in one room?

  • shovenoseshovenose Member, Host Rep

    @NHRoel that's why RAID10 in SSD :)

  • pubcrawlerpubcrawler Banned

    3TB of raw non RAID storage.... Way less when RAID.

    1000 customers? If you give them 1GB of space each.

    But then again, I'd suspect you'd use the SSDs, some of them for pretending to be RAM. The Colocrossing model.

  • shovenoseshovenose Member, Host Rep

    Hm... It would give 1.5TB storage. OK well we'll need bigger SSDs

  • rskrsk Member, Host Rep

    @shovenose saving physical space is not the case here. Have you ever had a node crash? Have you seen how many clients submit tickets if so? With that many VPS's booting up as well, meh. Not worth it.

    You can easily find good colo deals.

  • shovenoseshovenose Member, Host Rep

    I'm just being theoretical here :) Not like "oh this is my plan in a week" so yeah... just trying to find something to host 1,000 VPS :) or 100,000 shared hosting customers LOL

  • TheHackBoxTheHackBox Member
    edited February 2013

    You know if you really have to ask how many VPSes your node can host I am unsure if you should be in business

  • NHRoelNHRoel Member

    @shovenose said: SSD :)

    Not every ssd offer same level of performance.
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IOPS

  • ShigawireShigawire Member

    @shovenose said: that's 400,000 VPS in a single cage :)

    First goal: 400,000 customers. :D

  • KernelSandersKernelSanders

    WHY???????? Split that $10k into 5 decent $2K servers... Don't try to pack 1000 VPS on one server.

  • pubcrawlerpubcrawler Banned
    edited February 2013

    I think it is a terrible idea. Nothing against @shovenose.

    1U units have no real space for drives. You need SSD + big spinning disks + RAID + large RAM.

    So 2U unit is minimum for such a beast. You also need real controller if not a SAN type solution in other unit space.

    Me I'd avoid such a fatal learning experience. Horizontal scaling of smaller nodes is way better, way more manageable, also cost effective.

  • rskrsk Member, Host Rep

    @KernelSanders said: WHY???????? Split that $10k into 5 decent $2K servers... Don't try to pack 1000 VPS on one server.

    @shovenose exactly!

  • NHRoelNHRoel Member

    I would get a nice camcorder, buy a big bowl of ACII popcorn, sit back on my recliner and hit reboot button once that node is loaded. Would be fun to watch.

  • pubcrawlerpubcrawler Banned

    Hahaha @NHRoel.

  • MicrolinuxMicrolinux Member
    edited February 2013

    Nothing about that build makes any sense. It looks like you randomly picked a bunch of components that looked impressive to you.

  • InfinityInfinity Member, Host Rep
    edited February 2013

    @KernelSanders said: Don't try to pack 1000 VPS on one server.

    That. And good luck on getting 1000 IP's on one node.

  • AnthonySmithAnthonySmith Member, Patron Provider

    lol.

    IPv6 only I assume then..

  • Ash_HawkridgeAsh_Hawkridge Member

    Haha @AnthonySmith, no chance SolusVM doesn't support that out of the box :p

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