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Looking for a dedicated server
I am looking for a dedicated server with the following specs:
Intel E3 1230/1240 (v1/v2)
16GB RAM DDR3
4x500GB (Enterprise SATA disk) in SW RAID10
Around 5TB monthly bandwidth on a 1Gbps burstable port
Location: CA, TX, quickest route to Asia
Around 8 IP addresses (For SSL, VPS)
Maximum budget: $110/month. Will pay half-yearly/yearly.
Payment: Paypal and bank-wire transfer
Server will be mainly used for cpanel shared hosting, so a cpanel VPS license is also required.
My top priority is the 4x500GB RAID10, since my current RAID1 gives only ~40MB/s disk speed resulting into high IOWAIT.
Don't want OVH, online.net, etc..
Can anyone help me point to a good deal?
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I don't know about the raid, but try WeLoveServers.
So your budget of $110 includes the license?
I don't quite understand why you are getting such low disk speeds, unless you have a bad setup. I have a not great i3 server and I get 240mb/s in RAID 0 and 130 in RAID 1. I prefer RAID 0 since I can just keep offsite backups. 40mb/s seems awfully slow.
My hard drives are Seagate Barracuda 500GB in RAID1 (Software) drives with the following details:
Model: ST500DM002-1BD142
Firmware Version: KC45
When I initially rented the server, one drive was new, and the other had 7000 power-on hours on it. And while it was still new and nothing was on the server, dd test gave me the same result. (around 40-50MB/s).
Can you tell me what your drives are? More than 100MB/s would have been fine for me.