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[TPerry]

Just tagged this for another server at $84 a month. I went with just one IP as it's all I need, but could have 4 more for free.

Processor: Dual Intel Xeon L5639
Memory: 24GB DDR3 ECC
Primary Hard Drive: 1TB SATA
Secondary Hard Drive: 1TB SATA
Bandwidth: 30TB @ 1Gbps
Operating System: Debian 6 (64-bit)
IP Addresses: 1 IP Address

Going to take the current dual L5520 I have and set it up so that I can offer some folks I know access to a free VPS - using ProxMox (more than likely). Have to install it and start playing with it first tho'.

 

[MattW]

Who's proving that server @Tracy Perry ?

 

[TPerry]

Who's proving that server @Tracy Perry ?

ServerComplete. It's an option that I get when I go to "Add Services". They have the L5520 listed on their site but when you select it, it shows sold out. There is a link to it at WebHostingTalk though. The link to the order is here (and no, I'm not affiliated with them just a VERY happy customer )

 

[MattW]

Now that does look tempting! I've just moved my site to 2 x DigitalOcean 2GB droplets, and with the extra backup option I'm spending $44 a month (down from £93 when I was on a UK VPS), but I can tell a speed difference, especially when rebuilding templates etc.

Going to have a browse of your sites to see what page speed is like here in the UK.

 

[MattW]

root@nas:/mnt/soho_storage/samba/shares/Matt# wget http://speed.jax.servercomplete.com/test.zip
--2013-10-28 22:44:23--  http://speed.jax.servercomplete.com/test.zip
Resolving speed.jax.servercomplete.com... 208.84.135.17
Connecting to speed.jax.servercomplete.com|208.84.135.17|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 11536384 (11M) [application/zip]
Saving to: `test.zip'

100%[===========================================================================================================>] 11,536,384  858K/s  in 15s   

2013-10-28 22:44:49 (768 KB/s) - `test.zip' saved [11536384/11536384]

root@nas:/mnt/soho_storage/samba/shares/Matt# traceroute 208.84.135.17
traceroute to 208.84.135.17 (208.84.135.17), 30 hops max, 40 byte packets
1  192.168.1.1 (192.168.1.1)  1.711 ms  1.647 ms  1.770 ms
2  188.64.37.233 (188.64.37.233)  18.119 ms  21.879 ms  24.095 ms
3  172.24.0.17 (172.24.0.17)  32.719 ms  32.649 ms  32.629 ms
4  gi4-2.ccr01.lon17.atlas.cogentco.com (149.6.147.57)  29.343 ms  29.311 ms  29.222 ms
5  te0-1-1-0.ccr21.lon01.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.61.101)  29.631 ms  29.614 ms  29.527 ms
6  ldn-b4-link.telia.net (213.248.70.237)  29.071 ms  23.839 ms  23.818 ms
7  ldn-bb2-link.telia.net (80.91.247.93)  39.947 ms ldn-bb1-link.telia.net (213.155.136.74)  74.019 ms ldn-bb1-link.telia.net (213.155.132.194)  27.519 ms
8  ldn-bb1-link.telia.net (80.91.249.101)  113.730 ms ash-bb4-link.telia.net (80.91.252.103)  137.484 ms  137.421 ms
9  atl-bb1-link.telia.net (213.155.134.131)  119.698 ms atl-bb1-link.telia.net (80.91.251.86)  127.807 ms atl-bb1-link.telia.net (213.155.134.131)  118.522 ms
10  giglinx-ic-301473-atl-bb1.c.telia.net (213.248.86.238)  124.028 ms  123.697 ms  127.627 ms
11  208.84.135.250 (208.84.135.250)  134.282 ms  132.658 ms  130.457 ms
12  199.48.166.254 (199.48.166.254)  121.333 ms  121.282 ms  120.493 ms
13  208.84.135.17 (208.84.135.17)  119.028 ms  121.444 ms  120.075 ms


root@nas:/mnt/soho_storage/samba/shares/Matt# ping 208.84.135.17
PING 208.84.135.17 (208.84.135.17) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from 208.84.135.17: icmp_seq=1 ttl=49 time=117 ms
64 bytes from 208.84.135.17: icmp_seq=2 ttl=49 time=117 ms
64 bytes from 208.84.135.17: icmp_seq=3 ttl=49 time=117 ms

--- 208.84.135.17 ping statistics ---
3 packets transmitted, 3 received, 0% packet loss, time 2005ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 117.469/117.643/117.848/0.320 ms

 

[TPerry]

Going to have a browse of your sites to see what page speed is like here in the UK.

Here is on one server and here is on another. None of them are on the 5639 yet as I'm still setting it up.

 

[MattW]

Network speed isn't that great over to the UK. Even using their speed test tool, I can only get 800K/S on their 10MB file.

 

[TPerry]

Network speed isn't that great over to the UK. Even using their speed test tool, I can only get 800K/S on their 10MB file.

Try 50MB.zip from twowheeldemon.com and see if you get any different. That's on a 1Gb port.

 

[denisx04]

@Tracy Perry really knows his stuff when it comes to VPS, servers and great deals. I trust his judgement above many on here, after all he did set up my VPS

 

[MattW]

Try 50MB.zip from twowheeldemon.com and see if you get any different. That's on a 1Gb port.

Little bit better:

root@nas:/mnt/soho_storage/samba/shares/Matt# wget http://twowheeldemon.com/50MB.zip
--2013-10-29 00:18:34--  http://twowheeldemon.com/50MB.zip
Resolving twowheeldemon.com... 199.48.164.159
Connecting to twowheeldemon.com|199.48.164.159|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 52428800 (50M) [application/zip]
Saving to: `50MB.zip'

100%[===========================================================================================================>] 52,428,800  915K/s  in 59s   

2013-10-29 00:19:34 (867 KB/s) - `50MB.zip' saved [52428800/52428800]

 

[WSWD]

Just tagged this for another server at $84 a month. I went with just one IP as it's all I need, but could have 4 more for free.

Processor: Dual Intel Xeon L5639
Memory: 24GB DDR3 ECC
Primary Hard Drive: 1TB SATA
Secondary Hard Drive: 1TB SATA
Bandwidth: 30TB @ 1Gbps
Operating System: Debian 6 (64-bit)
IP Addresses: 1 IP Address

Going to take the current dual L5520 I have and set it up so that I can offer some folks I know access to a free VPS - using ProxMox (more than likely). Have to install it and start playing with it first tho'.

When you get into that price range, you are much better off going with a E3-1230v3 or similar. Going to be more powerful, likely to come with more RAM, more IPs, etc. for about the same price.

 

[TPerry]

When you get into that price range, you are much better off going with a E3-1230v3 or similar. Going to be more powerful, likely to come with more RAM, more IPs, etc. for about the same price.

I haven't really found one from somewhere I trust at that price. I've seen some in the ball-park but after reading some reviews decided against them.
Most that I've seen from the better ones run around $120 or so to start and by the time I'm done getting the memory up and additional drives in I'm scaring $250. These are not used for commercial purpose - only for a hobby. Between my VPS's that I use for backup and my servers I"m doing about $350 a month now.