For $750 a month does this seem like a good deal? * HP Proliant Server * Quad Core Woodcrest Xeon 2.33 Ghz * 4 GB Fully Buffered DDR-2 RAM * 2x 300GB 15,000 RPM hard drives * 350 io/sec * Fully Redundant RAID-1 * Battery-backed write-cache enabler * 1GB Network switch
You failed to mention the bandwidth allocated to it. This could be a great deal or a terrible deal depending on bandwidth.
When you pay for hosting you are paying for more than just the server. You are paying for a 24/7 manned datacentre so that if one of your drives dies in the middle of the night you can replace it. You are paying for a certain amount of bandwidth per month and a certain amount of guaranteed peak bandwidth. You are paying for backup systems so that if there's a blackout in your city, your website's visitors won't know about it. $750 sounds like it's in the RackSpace sort of arena. They offer all of these things and more for around the same sort of price. There are plenty of hosting providers that are as good as RackSpace so check out what you get with them and compare it to what you are getting now.
$750 could get you 2x this config. But, it completely depends on the provider, support, network, and all such factors.
4gb is about the max for a 32 bit operating system. So unless he ordered 64 bit OS system then adding more should be ok. For 32 bit linux, you add in 4 GB, you get 4 GB, for Windows it seemed to be able to recognize only 3.5 GB. So ram is already max up if it is 32 bit.
with 4 tb ?? i'd say pretty good if you have support and 99 up time, why not add 2 other drives and raid5 tho...
In germany usually are a lot cheaper, as a example, most vps have 3TB bandwidth (10mbit unmetered, and dedicated 100mbit unmetered), you can easily get an amd dual core with 4gb ram and 300gb hd for around 110 eur/month (160$/month aprox).