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Quickly looking over SoftLayer's price sheet, it looks to be a little over $1k a month for Intel 5670 with 24GB of RAM

shingen 15y ago
Softlayer is a lot more expensive than most hosts these days. They're closer to being in Rackspace territory now. You can get a dual E5-2609 with 32gb of ram + bandwidth from a good host like WebNX for $369 / month. And if you wanted to spend $1k per month, you can get a dual e5-2687W (16 cores @ 3.1ghz) with 128gb ram; with a 4x SAS RAID 10, plus a 120gb ssd drive, plus a 2tb backup freebie, plus 100mbps unmetered bandwidth (30tb). That literally blows the doors off Softlayer.
- CPlatypus 15y ago
  Literally? Did you literally fall asleep in English class?
  - shingen 15y ago
    Douche much? Looking over your comments on HN, that latest comment seems to be the peak of your contribution here. In over two years you've picked up 394 karma points. I'm going with the assumption that all of those karma points are from being a pedant about the English language. You're such a valuable member of this community! Rock on.
    - Terretta 15y ago
      Figuratively speaking, of course.
    - jemfinch 15y ago
      Which of your 98 days here qualifies you to assess the peak of someone's contribution over a span of two years?
      - omarchowdhury 15y ago
        Look out everybody, this guy's been here for almost 1000 days!
        cperciva 15y ago
        We don't need HN to turn into reddit, and we don't need it to turn into slashdot with its small-uid-envy either.
    - anthonyb 15y ago
      Hardly worth the hellban he seems to have received in response...
StavrosK 15y ago
I'm not really familiar with CPUs, but I got a hyperthreaded, quad core Xeon with 24 GB RAM, 750 2xRAID1 disks and 10 TB bandwidth from Hetzner for 60 euros a month... Isn't that comparable to what you mention, apart from being many times cheaper? http://www.hetzner.de/en/hosting/produkte_rootserver/ex5 http://www.hetzner.de/en/hosting/produkte_rootserver/ex5
- bbgm 15y ago
  Not quite. Check this out http://ark.intel.com/compare/47920,37147 http://ark.intel.com/compare/47920,37147 The Softlayer server is a Xeon, the Hetzner is a desktop grade processor. Key differences for me * Cache * QPI (especially in a 2P config that makes a difference) * Max TDP ... that's a HUGE one. * ECC memory. See http://perspectives.mvdirona.com/2012/02/26/ObservationsOnErrorsCorrectionsTrustOfDependentSystems.aspx http://perspectives.mvdirona.com/2012/02/26/ObservationsOnEr... for why this is important So, you're not comparing apples to apples
  - StavrosK 15y ago
    Ah, yes, sorry, it's an i7, not a Xeon. Still, you could get around 40 of these machines for one of those, so I'd take these.
  - tuomasb 15y ago
    Hetzner's Xeon offerings with ECC aren't that expensive either: http://www.hetzner.de/hosting/produkte_rootserver/ex6 http://www.hetzner.de/hosting/produkte_rootserver/ex6 I would expect Softlayer to be more reliable than Hetzner as a service provider but that being said, the price difference is still huge.

Softlayer is a lot more expensive than most hosts these days. They're closer to being in Rackspace territory now. You can get a dual E5-2609 with 32gb of ram + bandwidth from a good host like WebNX for $369 / month. And if you wanted to spend $1k per month, you can get a dual e5-2687W (16 cores @ 3.1ghz) with 128gb ram; with a 4x SAS RAID 10, plus a 120gb ssd drive, plus a 2tb backup freebie, plus 100mbps unmetered bandwidth (30tb). That literally blows the doors off Softlayer.

CPlatypus 15y ago
Literally? Did you literally fall asleep in English class?
- shingen 15y ago
  Douche much? Looking over your comments on HN, that latest comment seems to be the peak of your contribution here. In over two years you've picked up 394 karma points. I'm going with the assumption that all of those karma points are from being a pedant about the English language. You're such a valuable member of this community! Rock on.
  - Terretta 15y ago
    Figuratively speaking, of course.
  - jemfinch 15y ago
    Which of your 98 days here qualifies you to assess the peak of someone's contribution over a span of two years?
    - omarchowdhury 15y ago
      Look out everybody, this guy's been here for almost 1000 days!
      - cperciva 15y ago
        We don't need HN to turn into reddit, and we don't need it to turn into slashdot with its small-uid-envy either.
  - anthonyb 15y ago
    Hardly worth the hellban he seems to have received in response...

StavrosK 15y ago

I'm not really familiar with CPUs, but I got a hyperthreaded, quad core Xeon with 24 GB RAM, 750 2xRAID1 disks and 10 TB bandwidth from Hetzner for 60 euros a month... Isn't that comparable to what you mention, apart from being many times cheaper? http://www.hetzner.de/en/hosting/produkte_rootserver/ex5 http://www.hetzner.de/en/hosting/produkte_rootserver/ex5

bbgm 15y ago
Not quite. Check this out http://ark.intel.com/compare/47920,37147 http://ark.intel.com/compare/47920,37147 The Softlayer server is a Xeon, the Hetzner is a desktop grade processor. Key differences for me * Cache * QPI (especially in a 2P config that makes a difference) * Max TDP ... that's a HUGE one. * ECC memory. See http://perspectives.mvdirona.com/2012/02/26/ObservationsOnErrorsCorrectionsTrustOfDependentSystems.aspx http://perspectives.mvdirona.com/2012/02/26/ObservationsOnEr... for why this is important So, you're not comparing apples to apples
- StavrosK 15y ago
  Ah, yes, sorry, it's an i7, not a Xeon. Still, you could get around 40 of these machines for one of those, so I'd take these.
- tuomasb 15y ago
  Hetzner's Xeon offerings with ECC aren't that expensive either: http://www.hetzner.de/hosting/produkte_rootserver/ex6 http://www.hetzner.de/hosting/produkte_rootserver/ex6 I would expect Softlayer to be more reliable than Hetzner as a service provider but that being said, the price difference is still huge.