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Has there been a recent influx of second hand servers into the LEB market?
I see a lot of new offers featuring L5xxx Xeon servers, with L5520 appearing to the most common, which some of them featuring high amount of RAM, like 48Gb upwards.
Before new servers were often happy to mention their E3-12xx servers and the bigger providers mention E5-26xx servers.
Where are the L5XXX servers coming from? Have numbers of ex Linode servers come onto the market or what?
Los Angeles also seems to have become a source of LEBs offering high resources. Is that because there are lots of web industry majors there decommissioning stock?
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There are seller(s) on ebay selling them for a pretty good price with 48/72/96gb ram:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Dell-Poweredge-C1100-1U-2X-XEON-QC-L5520-2-26GHZ-4x160GB-HDD-48GB-DDR3-Warranty-/251263380756
http://www.ebay.com/itm/HP-Proliant-DL160-G6-1U-2x-XEON-QC-L5520-2-26GHz-NO-HDD-72GB-Ram-Special-QTY-/251338184169
From my understanding a lot of datacenters and companies purchase servers from Dell or HP on a lease. So after a few years the servers can be purchased for a big discount, or can be returned to the company leasing the server.
Are they competitive with current or previous generation E3 servers, ie if not for general purpose but webhosting/VPS purposes?
E3s have better CPU. L5520s have more cores, so more suitable for VPS hosting and you can get cheap and up to 512GB ram with them when you can only get 32GB ram with E3s. And you can get those servers cheaper than new E3 servers. So yeah..
I could be wrong, but I believe a large portion of the influx is from lease contracts that expired with Facebook/Twitter.