Cheap SCSI SAN VPS hosting - 2gbit iSCSI, 15,000RPM, brand new 5 node cluster! -

We are opening up a new Datacenter in the Long island, New York. We will start with 5 nodes, and all storage will be on a dedicated iscsi SAN. This half off special will run for only 1 week, after which prices will go to normal, the gold storage space will decrease to 25gb, and the silver storage space will decrease to 15gb.

SCSI SAN VPS hosting

San host specs:

• HP DL380
• 6x 146gb 15,000RPM scsi drives raid5
• dual 2.8ghz xeons
• 4GB fully buffered ecc ram
• HP DL380
• 2000mbit san network(2x bonded GigE nic's)
• 100mbit internet network
• Dual redundant power supplies

VPS nodes 1 and 2 specs:

• IBM xseries 345
• Dual 3ghz xeons
• 2x 36gb 15,000RPM drives(no VPS's hosted here, only the OS)
• hardware raid1
• 1000mbit san network link
• 100mbit internet link
• 4GB fully buffered ecc ram
• Dual redundant power supplies

VPS node 3 specs:

• HP DL380
• Dual 2.8ghz xeons
• 2x 36gb 15,000RPM drives(no VPS's hosted here, only the OS)
• hardware raid1
• 1000mbit san network link
• 100mbit internet link
• 4GB fully buffered ecc ram
• Dual redundant power supplies

VPS node 4 specs:

• Dual 80gb sata drives(No VPS's hosted here, only the os)
• Hardware raid1
• 2x dual core xeons 3ghz
• 6GB fully buffered ecc ram
• 1000mbit san network
• 100mbit internet network
• Dual redundant power supplies

The plans:

Coupon Code:halfoff



Super Silver plan:

• Ram burstable to 500MB(256 guarenteed)
• Super fast dual quad core xeon servers
• 6 x 15,000 RPM SCSI drives
• 25GB Ultra fast raid 5 space
• FULL root access
• 1 Dedicated ip address
• 200GB Bandwidth
• INSTANTLY reinstall os
• Chose from Debian, Ubuntu, Suse, Fedora, and CentOS
• 1000mhz cpu(GREAT VALUE)
• Revolutionary hypervm control panel
• Hosted on quality HP servers
• 99.95% uptime
• FREE lxadmin control panel(supports reselling)
• INSTANT, and FREE setup!
• $10(first month, $20 thereafter)

Order now: http://www.thevpsguy.com/whmcs/order.php?step=2&pid=34


Super Gold plan:

• Ram burstable to 1000MB(500 guarenteed)
• Super fast dual quad core xeon servers
• 6 x 15,000 RPM SCSI drives
• 50GB Ultra fast raid 5 space
• FULL root access
• 1 Dedicated ip address
• 400GB bandwidth
• INSTANTLY reinstall os
• Chose from Debian, Ubuntu, Suse, Fedora, and CentOS
• 1000mhz cpu(GREAT VALUE)
• Revolutionary hypervm control panel
• Hosted on quality HP servers
• 99.95% uptime
• FREE lxadmin control panel(supports reselling)
• INSTANT, and FREE setup!
• $20(first month, $39.95 thereafter)

Order now: http://www.thevpsguy.com/whmcs/order.php?step=2&pid=35

$10/mo plan:

• Ram burstable to 300MB(150 guarenteed)
• Super fast dual quad core xeon servers
• 6x 15,000 RPM SCSI drives
• 10GB Ultra fast raid 5 space
• FULL root access
• 1 Dedicated ip address
• 100gb
• INSTANTLY reinstall os
• Chose from Debian, Ubuntu, Suse, Fedora, and CentOS
• 1000mhz cpu(GREAT VALUE)
• Revolutionary hypervm control panel
• Hosted on quality HP servers
• 99.95% uptime
• FREE lxadmin control panel(supports reselling)
• INSTANT, and FREE setup!
• $10/mo

Order now: http://www.thevpsguy.com/whmcs/order.php?step=2&pid=17


Node specs:

• 4x dual core xeons 2ghz
• 12GB ECC registered ram
• 100mbit uplink
• 5x 15,000RPM SCSI drives 146gb
• Hardware Raid5(256MB cache)
• Genuine HP server
• 3x redundant power supplies

Control panel specs:

• Instantly reinstall OS
• Start/Stop/Restart VPS
• Great all in one DNS management panel(supports private nameservers)\
• Create shared/reseller/master reseller accounts
• Create custom shared/reseller hosting plans
• Free server side backups of your whole vps(downloadable)
• PhpMyAdmin
• 30+ one click install scripts
• Great ajax interface

What makes us different from most of the larger VPS companies, is we have 24/7 support, and most support tickets are answered with hours, not days. We also offer an unbeatable 30 day money back guarantee. To get this special offer, simply put the coupon code "wht" in when you checkout at http://www.thevpsguy.com/whmcs/order.php?step=2&pid=1

With plans this cheap, and this reliable, you simply cannot go wrong! On our higher end plan(has roughly 4x the power of this plan), we offer semi-managed services FREE! Check out our site at http://www.thevpsguy.com now!

Our vps servers are great for any type of website, be it a personal site, a business site, or even a hosting business. Lxadmin allows you to use your vps as a powerful master reseller account, and allows you to create private nameservers, as well as custom resource plans.

An analysis of other VPS hosting provider's hardware:

Each of our 15,000RPM scsi drives is roughly twice as fast for total bandwidth, and seek/latency than a standard 7,200RPM sata drive. Since we use 5 of them in a single server, and raid5, we have the total performance of 4 of those drives(5-1 because of the parity used for redundancy). That leads to a performance of over EIGHT times the performance of a single sata drive(the 256MB cache of the raid controller makes it closer to 9). Also, any single drive in the array can fail, and there will be no downtime at all, and no data will be lost! Now, lets look at what other hosts use:

Scenario 1: NO raid

In this scenario, as earlier stated, no raid is used, and our arrays are almost 9 times faster for reads, and writes. Also, if a drive fails in this array(very likely when IO is put on a single sata drive), you lose all your data, and chances are you wont be able to get a backup.

Scenario 2: raid1 with 2x sata drives
This scenario is the second most common, after a single sata drive. This means that one drive in the array can fail, with no problem. Write performance is that of a single drive,and read performance is almost twice as fast as a single drive, or as fast as one of our scsi drives. This means that our drives are 8 times faster for writes, and 4-5 times faster for reads.

Scenario 3: raid10 with 4 drives

This scenario is the third most common, and involves 2 sets of raid0 arrays, that are mirrored for redundancy. This give the performance of double read, and write speed. Our drives are thus 4 times faster for reads, and writes.


As you can see, no hosts around on WHT can offer faster Disk IO than we do, and has better redundancy. Also, a SATA drive is almost 3 times more likely to fail than a scsi drive, as SATA was designed with the desktop market in mind, so they weren't built for the intense disk IO of an overloaded server. Now, lets compare prices:

A single 250GB 7,200RPM sata drive sells for around $50(which is the most used drive in alot of these hosts)

A single 146GB 15,00RPM scsi drive sells for around $250

Now, we are selling VPS's for less than a 40% premium than standard VPS hosting, and our drives are almost 10 times more expensive than sata drives, and we also use higher quality HP servers, which is rarely used in the hosting industry. Think about this, and decide for yourself, what host you are going to use.


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You need to take a look at RAID 5 performance characteristics.. because of the parity calculation, writes are not nearly that fast.

It also sounds like your 'SAN' is actually just a regular server set up to export LUNs via iSCSI or something similar - so if it needs maintenance or crashes, all your VPS's are down?

 

Well, yes and no. With a dedicated hardware raid controller(especially the high end HP ones) the parity calculation has an overhead equal to one less stripe. This means you get roughly the performance of 4-5 stripes. What you said is true on crappy software, or fakeraid, were the performance lingers at not much more than a single drive. Also, exporting LUN's on a dedicated host with 4gb ram, and dual 2.8ghz xeons with a 533fsb is around the same speed as an iSCSI appliance. The 533 FSB provides 5600mbits of bus bandwidth, which is more than enough to cover the throughput of 6 15,000rpm scsi drives, and 2gbits of network throughput.

Also we have HP dl380 servers that have been up for around 150 days with no problem at all(they run rock solid). Also, in case we do need to do a restart or maintenance, we will move the VPS nodes to node 4(which we have 2 of) for the duration of the maintenance(we will load these servers with dual 500gb sata raid1, so it will cover all the vps's)

 

Is this offer still valid?

 

kpatelseo you are ruining this thread. Make you own thread and do the sales part there.

P.S your bluehost oversells.

 

EDIT: Mods, please close this thread, the new sales thread is http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=1112072

 

The design looks pretty nice I'll be checking out your new deals soon

 

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