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Dedicated server request
ultimatehostings
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Looking for a quote for the following;
2xL5520
72GB RAM
4x2TB HDD
LSI-9260 RAID CARD
/26 IPv4
/64 IPv6
10TB @ 1gbit port
IPMI
Location : Dallas Or Atlanta.
Will get 2 if the price is right, looking to spend $150 at max per server.
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I have contacted them and this is what they're offering but they have a shortage of drives.
To be precise, we have lots of 1TB drives. Just not 2TB Enterprise for RAID. It's a rare request. We plan on restocking them, but it hasn't arrived yet.
This was an urgent request - they needed it like ASAP but price concerns. We could overnight ship it but budget.
@qps would probably be able to help you.
Those are somewhat tight within that budget... Spend 2x as much would be more reasonable. The power usage!
Thanks for the recommendation @marcm, but we can't meet that price with those requirements. You'd be looking at $214.99 per month each in Atlanta. We have everything in stock and can deploy fairly quickly.
Just out of curiosity, why so many VPS providers are so keen of using such an old CPU, Dual L 5520 has a passmark of 7109 which is pretty poor for something professional such as virtual servers & that too when you are looking to put so many VMs on it(as evident from amount of RAM requested)?
$, that's why.
Dual L5520 is a pretty decent setup. We have many customers who use them and they are workhorses. They aren't that far off of some of the E3 systems, and can accept a lot more RAM.
Off topic but there isn't really anything wrong with the L5520. It is a bit old but it's still more than capable of handling heavy multi-threaded processes. Benchmark scores do not really mean much in real world computing. I'm not saying they should be ignored, but there are other factors that hold more weight than a benchmark score.
May be it performs as good are better than E3 1220 v1 or E3 1230 V1 but there is no way on earth it would beat an E3 12xx v3 or v2 even.
@ultimatehostings - Email Steve [email protected] - He will be posting a number of offers on Monday for L5520 amongst other servers. I think he could meet your price point.
Location?
@UltimateHostings - You mentioned Atlanta and Dallas. I know there are L5520 in stock in Atlanta - HP blades and HP pizzaboxes. Dallas I can't check their stock from here.
Any idea of the price of the offers?
LSI 9260-4i is PCI express 2.0, you will get better performance with a LSI 9271-4i which will provide you faster access to the raid controller cache etc (2.0 however wont be a writethrough bottleneck as 2.0 is enough for 4x 2tb sata).
edit: nevermind dual l5520 boards are only pci2.0 not 3.0 capable.
Make sure you get a firewall on your IPMI too, get the provider to throw it in for free, because IPMIs are rapidly being exploited when direct connected to the net. The ipmi firmware on the old Dual L5520 machines is currently ~3 years old IIRC.
I would also check the speed of the RAM on the dual l5520 machines, presumably it is 1066 not 1600mhz, as those chipsets are very old now.
Volumedrive might be a good bet for the budget/spec.
Hey Gordon!