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EU Based Dedicated Rig / 16GB RAM & 240+GB SSD
Willing to pay a year for a discount. Have a similar set-up with Delimiter (8GB RAM on Dual L5520 with 240GB SSD) now and love their network just looking for an EU counterpart. Prefer an E3 option as the 16 threads of a dual L5520 is overkill (need higher single threaded performance and more RAM). I would be willing to supply my own Intel 750 (PCIe based) SSD as well.
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What is your budget for this?
Also for the Intel 750 you will want a PCIe Gen3, Gen2 is noticeably slower.
More than happy to help! Budget ?
@MarkTurner - yes, on the Intel750 would need PCIe Gen3 so I figured that certainly rules out the L series Xeons.
Budget is ~$40/mo (assuming an annual discount)
I prefer 1 Gigabit but can get by with 100Mbps. 5TB would be plenty and could get by with 2TB if that helps with pricing.
Worldstream have i3-2100 dedi (20% less single-core performance than e3-1230, according to Primatelabs). 16GB RAM, 240GB SSD config is $45/m (yearly payment). E3-1230v2, 16GB RAM, 240GB SSD config is $48/m.
Online.net used to offer E3-1230v3, 32GB, 2x120GB SSD for $34/m without setup fee, that was a really great deal. It was a promo and not available anymore. But they make various promo offers from time to time.
https://www.hetzner.de/us/hosting/produkte_rootserver/ex41ssd
But I doubt they will allow to install your own PCIe SSD
The one from SoYouStart maybe?
Just restocked on the 3x120GB SSD
https://eu.soyoustart.com/en/cgi-bin/newOrder/order.cgi?hard=143sys13
@Bersy - I have been looking for that online.net deal all the time!
20EUR for an SSD is rather pricey. Also that is 100Mbps - not a deal killer but not my preference. 50TB allowed - seems hard to hit at 100 Mbps...
Thanks - the EUR79 setup fee kills it for me.
Then take a look here: https://robot.your-server.de/order/market/country/US, no setup fee
If you don't mind SeFlow, it looks like their i5-2500, 16Gb RAM, 240GB SSD config is $29/m.
@bersy you know the history with seflow and Interpol lol?
I do
I don't but seeing your comment that cannot be good...
EDIT Some quick googling gave me all the info I need - avoiding seflow...
The problem you're going to come up against with these NVMe's - most box shifters will use 1U cases and some cases won't fit the NVMe SSD properly, it snags on the motherboard's passive heatsinks or the heat coming off the NVMe SSD causes the motherboard to overheat.
I played (unsuccessfully) with this early last year with 1U Lenovo, Supermicro and HP boxes. I found optimal cooling was achieved where the NVMe SSD was vertical so 1U pizza boxes were out the window.
Try WorldStream as suggested before.
They don't use rack servers for their dedicated servers. They use professional Dell and Lenovo desktop style servers.
They also don't charge for putting in your own disks, only if you want to change the setup afterwards.
Thanks - might give them a shot. Is there anyone from worldstream that watches LET or best to shoot them an e-mail? Only downside I see is 100Mbps port speed . I do move some large (80+ GB) files about every 10-14 days that would be far easier on gigabit.
I don't think there's anyone here who represents them, so email or live chat is probably the best option.
As for the network speed, they offer upgrades to 1 Gbps for around €10 extra.
Yep - noticed that. A 25% increase in server cost for gigabit is not viable for me...
Completely understandable.
I'd recommend ServDiscount. They have an E3 with 2x 120 GB SSDs for just shy of €30. Only downside is the German checkout process and occasional German emails, wasn't a bother for me as a German speaker, but for others I can understand it could be a deal breaker. Google translate should be able to make it somewhat understandable, however. They do offer English support too.
(I'm not affiliated with ServDiscount, just a happy customer)
@introvex: how is their network? Thank you for suggestion.
@JWU42
@HWAYS
If you (or anyone else) requires some native German speaker, just let me know.
Thank you, Wolf
I've yet to have downtime. Had the server for just over a month - here's the classic bench.sh output:
I have the option with 2x 1 TB HDDs, rather than the SSD option. It's not bad for the price and I've yet to contact support for anything more than a glitch. Their IPs can be swapped between server mode and virtualization mode. Virtualization mode is for servers running a hypervisor so that IPs can be allocated to VPS'. The problem was that I ordered a new IP (€1 extra per IP per month) and it hadn't gone into virtualization mode. The support team's response was quick and gave me a rather brute force method of fixing it - flicking the option between the two modes a few times - but I wasn't too concerned with the solution, so long as it solved my issue, which it did.
@IntroVex: how much is an additional IP with ServDiscount ? Thanks
€1 per IP per month
Thank you.
@WorldStream
@introvex Thanks for the bench. The speeds to the US are very poor
What I am currently seeing from Delemiter (240GB SSD).
Yeah, the network isn't the best to the US. It's decent enough to the UK, that being my basis for recommending them.
WorldStream is probably the way to go then. They have a far better network than ServDiscount do.
Perhaps OVH or one of their subsidiaries - namely SoYouStart - is a worthy contender. Both have setup fees though, so that's something to watch out for.
Zare (in UK) looks good but prices are $$$. Still looking...
Worldstream network to the US is a concern so while they seem to be a good option just not ideal for me.