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Please give me your opinion on this server

Discussion in 'Site & Server Administration' started by ZiskerHosting.com, Feb 9, 2016.

  1. #2
    I am buying a server for hosting my web hosting company, I know I need to change the hard drives but what else do you think about it?
    Specifications:
    Dell PowerEdge
    -perc h700 raid
    -192gb ram ddr3
    -dual xeon 2.8ghz six core cpu
    -2x Dell Enterprise 146GB 15K SAS 3.5"
    -Dell SlimLine Optical Drive
    -Dual 570W Power Supply Unit
    -Broadcom BCM5709C 4 x iSCSI TOE NICs (4 On-Board Ports Total)
    -Embedded Matrox G200 8MBl
    -2U Rackmountable
    -Dell iDRAC6 Express Card
    -Rapid Rails
     
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    ZiskerHosting.com, Feb 9, 2016 IP
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    PoPSiCLe Illustrious Member

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    It's not a bad server, but if you're gonna host an actual webhosting company, it'll fall short fairly quickly - depends on what your customers will want, of course, but still. The ram is decent, the drives are ok, but 6 cores... as soon as people start running heavy-duty setups on this, the performance will go to the basement. What's your network-setup? I see that you have 4 ports - bundling? separate? what limit per user?
    One server to host a webhosting company seems to me to be a bit optimistic. Normally you'd have fail-overs, separate servers, multi-machine setups etc.
     
    PoPSiCLe, Feb 10, 2016 IP
  3. #4
    If you're just starting - that is good enough.
    I would suggest a Dual 6 core CPU if your budget allows. I'd also recommend SSD's in RAID10 (hardware).

    If you're co-locating - make sure you have some spare hardware, and are close to the data centre (remote hands costs a bit).
     
    Localnode, Feb 10, 2016 IP