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Not the exact same motherboard, but basically the same one they use, except this one has inbuilt power, so you just need a 12v power adaptor compared to a whole PSU:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813121710
OVH don't use cases, the mobo's go directly into racks. So basically just get that board, some ram and a HD and your good to go, you can probably build the whole thing for under $200?
@woop they dont use cases? wtf LOL. what about on their high-end machines?
@Jeffrey rather they use custom cases, for higher density and also water cooling for higher efficiency. There are videos on youtube.
Google does not use cases either. They use a piece of sheet metal for the bottom and part of one side. That is it!
Ehh, i guess its easier to not use cases at all. I heard fdcservers uses boxes as cases. LOL wtf aha
@Jeffrey they don't have "usual" cases anywhere
http://lafibre.info/datacenter/data-center-ovh-roubaix-1/
http://lafibre.info/datacenter/data-center-ovh-roubaix-2/
http://lafibre.info/datacenter/data-center-ovh-roubaix-3/
http://lafibre.info/datacenter/data-center-ovh-roubaix-4/ <- this is the one with the 10EUR/mo Kimsufi
it's basically just motherboards on shelves, with pipes going into everything from the centralized water cooling system.
Smart cheap idea
mmm all have a USB stick, what can be for?
@dedicados
https://www.ovh.co.uk/dedicated_servers/usb_key.xml
thanks @jkr1711
interesting!
@jkr1711 people actually buy these USB keys?
Rumor has it.
@rds100 Guess some people might want to store copies of certain files on a USB stick should there be a drive failure? Who knows
@jkr1711 yes, makes sense. I guess we should start offering these too.
celeron processor is not designed for server or desktop as processor is very slow and pointless waste of money.
I don't think they even give celeron any more. all my recent kimsufi servers are atom N2800
I still don't understand the point of ordering their USB stick, for the price they charge for it, you can easily have a small VPS somewhere else, and copy files remotely to it over rsync or some network FS.
And for backup, USB stick in the same server is laughable anyway, a good backup should also ensure against the DC or OVH as a whole disappearing from the face of Earth.
Celeron 220s still pop occasionally, along with Atom 230s and D425s with about the same performance.
celeron or atom are the worst processors which I have seen, very slow on desktop pc running ubuntu linux, as for server I think it will be the same effect.
I think the actual OS runs off the flash drive. They have big NAS on each rack where all the hard drives are installed so it uses less space and they can upgrade hard drive space without physically touching the server at all.
When I got my Kimsufi box, i downloaded some reasonably big files to the root system and then noticed I filled it up as the total space was like 8gb but the /var/ folder was 500gb, so I'm guessing that's how they set it up. Makes a lot of sense though.
they also cost shit-all to run and rent
You are an idiot. Simple.
The Kimsufi boxes each have a physical hdd (or 2 depending on model) they don't use a NAS/SAN for these.
When you reinstall your OS from the OVH panel you can select how your want your partitions. I use a few GB for swap and the rest to / with EXT4
The Kimsufi N2800
It's called open computing facebook uses this too..
I ordered a 16GB USB key.. and I use it to store proxmox images and backups so when I reinstall proxmox I don;t have to manually download all the images over again.
it's been working great and for 1 euro /mo it's really nothing to complain about.. For fun I did install a CT on the USB key and the performance was horrible!!
I never went personal, only idiots are using Atom/Celeron processors nowadays ( especially for busy servers).
Well why the hell would anyone pay $100 for a E3 if they're only going to use it as a backup or personal server?
Atom is more than capable for a busy web-server
My experience also says that a modern Atom is OK for a web server. It's not OK for movie encoding and such, but for a web server it works well.
for backup purpose much better to use system with raid as it will be more secure backup.
one website - yes agree, but not shared hosting.