Buying server from Germany?

Pucking Fissed Off

Hi Guys,

I've use Hardwareversand in the past and was very impressed with their price's. I'm now looking to buy a server I wondering if anybody knows of a similar site for servers?

Dave

deceit

Pucking Fissed Off wrote: »

Hi Guys,

I've use Hardwareversand in the past and was very impressed with their price's. I'm now looking to buy a server I wondering if anybody knows of a similar site for servers?

Dave

What type of server are you looking for? If its just a generic server why not build one yourself the same as with hardwareversand for your previous build?

justsomebloke

what is the purpose of server? Can you allow for down time if something goes wrong with it?

Pucking Fissed Off

Thanks for the replies.

deceit wrote: »

What type of server are you looking for? If its just a generic server why not build one yourself the same as with hardwareversand for your previous build?

I have a machine from hardwareversand priced up already, I just want to find out what sort of money a "real" server would cost me, and I have spare server RAM, CPU's etc but very little to spare by way of high end PC parts.

The machine will be a hypervisor for a number of servers which are currently running on old machines that are running at max hardware specs and struggling with their workload.

justsomebloke wrote: »

what is the purpose of server? Can you allow for down time if something goes wrong with it?

No down time is not really an option, if I get high spec PC's I'll be using a number of them in a fail over cluster.

justsomebloke

what have you speced up so far and how many people are going to be connecting to them

Pucking Fissed Off

This board http://www.hardwareversand.de/Socket+2011/66047/Gigabyte+GA-X79-UP4%2C+Intel+X79%2C+XL-ATX%2C+PCI-Express.article

with i7, 32 gigs of RAM (4x8) and 3x 4TB hdds. That will leave me 3 free SATA and 4 free RAM slots to double things up in a couple of years.

deceit

I would get this as the motherboard instead of the one you selected especially because you said you had server ram which I presume is ecc ram
http://www.hardwareversand.de/Socket+2011/54216/ASUS+P9X79+WS%2C+Sockel+2011%2C+enhanced+ATX%2C+DDR3.article

justsomebloke

I'd be a bit worried about this only having 3 x 4TB drives in a virtual environment as it will lead to numerous read/write bottlenecks

deceit

justsomebloke wrote: »

I'd be a bit worried about this only having 3 x 4TB drives in a virtual environment as it will lead to numerous read/write bottlenecks

6 * 2tb drivers would be a better option which would give much better read/write but you might need an after market raid card. I have 10 drives in one of my machines and it was giving really poor speeds until I switched to a raid card.

Cuddlesworth

Host VM's need IOPS. While a large Raid array can give you that, a much better spend is a small SSD array for OS and a small disk array for storage.