Got bored... future AoV server upgrade
Posted: Sun Jun 21, 2009 9:33 pm
Once the revamp is over and I start working on ServerWeave, I will then need a bigger server so I can do web hosting, which will bring in money.
I found that liquidweb colocation costs 300/mo and allows 3 tower servers, right now I'm paying 149/mo (that's USD so it comes up to around 160-180).
With a server this powerful, renting costs aren't realistic and colocation is better. Renting a server of this power would be like 600/mo if more. The beauty with collocation is I could later on send them another server.
For kicks I decided to put together a box to get an idea of pricing if I was to do it now:
In the end this is the specs:
* 8x 1TB hard drives (some web hosts offer 999999TB for $4/mo, I need to compete somehow )
* 4GB of ram, with capacity for 24GB
* 2GB lan
* cheapo video card (no point in getting a huge high heat generating vid card for a server)
* 8 cores of processing power at 2.66GHz each!
I would probably raid 2 drives using the built on hardware raid if it's any good just so my OS is redundant. Then I'd make either a raid 10 or 5 volume with the other 6 drives. All 8 drives are hot swappable which means no downtime should one fail.
Later on if I was to add more servers I could add a gigabit switch in the mix and use the 2nd port to have a private network between the servers for very fast backups between servers.
Just imagine though, 8GB of ram! Right now we have 2GB and to go 4 would cost like 50 bucks extra per month!
Of course I'm just dreaming here. The one time cost to build this is not THAT bad as I could just save it up, but the 300/mo is still steep for our needs. Later on though, maybe. It's fun to dream.
Putting this together was better then watching porn tbh.
Archived topic from AOV, old topic ID:4714, old post ID:30650
I found that liquidweb colocation costs 300/mo and allows 3 tower servers, right now I'm paying 149/mo (that's USD so it comes up to around 160-180).
With a server this powerful, renting costs aren't realistic and colocation is better. Renting a server of this power would be like 600/mo if more. The beauty with collocation is I could later on send them another server.
For kicks I decided to put together a box to get an idea of pricing if I was to do it now:
In the end this is the specs:
* 8x 1TB hard drives (some web hosts offer 999999TB for $4/mo, I need to compete somehow )
* 4GB of ram, with capacity for 24GB
* 2GB lan
* cheapo video card (no point in getting a huge high heat generating vid card for a server)
* 8 cores of processing power at 2.66GHz each!
I would probably raid 2 drives using the built on hardware raid if it's any good just so my OS is redundant. Then I'd make either a raid 10 or 5 volume with the other 6 drives. All 8 drives are hot swappable which means no downtime should one fail.
Later on if I was to add more servers I could add a gigabit switch in the mix and use the 2nd port to have a private network between the servers for very fast backups between servers.
Just imagine though, 8GB of ram! Right now we have 2GB and to go 4 would cost like 50 bucks extra per month!
Of course I'm just dreaming here. The one time cost to build this is not THAT bad as I could just save it up, but the 300/mo is still steep for our needs. Later on though, maybe. It's fun to dream.
Putting this together was better then watching porn tbh.
Archived topic from AOV, old topic ID:4714, old post ID:30650