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Isn't it cheaper to buy the server with that much RAM and colocate? This one is under $2K: https://www.ebay.com/itm/172727384582 https://www.ebay.com/itm/1727
by olegkikin 9y ago
Isn't it cheaper to buy the server with that much RAM and colocate?
This one is under $2K:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/172727384582 https://www.ebay.com/itm/172727384582
- coverband 9y agoI’ve colocated servers for a long time and even though it’s counterintuitive, the price of power+kvm+bandwidth+rackspace is rarely less than the price of a managed dedicated server in the same data center.
- chx 9y agoColocation is horror. You are responsible for replacing the HW if the magic smoke gets released. Nah. Just rent it. Not to mention capex vs opex. Don't forget to add two 960GB U.2 NVMe drives. Those are expensive. For eg https://www.neweggbusiness.com/product/product.aspx?item=9b-0d9-0003-000d0 https://www.neweggbusiness.com/product/product.aspx?item=9b-... $831.60 apiece. Doubles the server price. Oh I forgot you picked a server which doesn't have hotswap NVMe bays... Also that CPU is old and slow. It is the one before Sandy Bridge. I can't find the EPYC chip on the spec site but a roughly comparable Xeon: Old: https://www.spec.org/cpu2006/results/res2011q2/cpu2006-20110412-15692.html https://www.spec.org/cpu2006/results/res2011q2/cpu2006-20110... New: https://www.spec.org/cpu2006/results/res2017q3/cpu2006-20170626-47338.html https://www.spec.org/cpu2006/results/res2017q3/cpu2006-20170... (yes, the latter is 2P so you'd need to halve it, it's still twice as fast)