Hi,

I have got quote from server vendor and I am going to use below for shared/reseller hosting server.


Dual Intel Xeon Woodcrest 5130, 4x 2.0Ghz/2M L2 cores
Supermicro X7DVL-E dual socket 771 server board, Intel 5000V chipset
4G ECC FB-DIMM DDR2-533 ECC Registered (4x 1G, 2x open)
7x Western Digital 250-Gig SATA-II RAID Edition, 7200rpm
1x Western Digital 500-Gig SATA-II RAID Edition, 7200rpm
3ware 9550SX-8LP 8-port SATA-II RAID Controller, PCI-X 133mhz
on-board Intel dual-port gigabit NICs
on-board ATI ES1000 Video, 16M
Supermicro IPMI 2.0 Adapter (AOC-SIMLC)
8x slim DVD-ROM, no floppy drive
SuperMicro SC825TQ-R700LPB 2U Rack-mount Chassis
8x Hot-swap HDD Carriers & 1x8 SATA Backplanes
SuperMicro dual 700w Redundant Power Supplies

2x 250-Gig RAID1 for / (total 250GB space)

4x 250-Gig RAID10 for /home (total 500GB space)

1x 250-gig global hot-swap spare for both RAID1 and RAID10
1x 500-Gig for /backup (local backup)

And going to run linux(centos) with cPanel....

Can anyone give me advice or comment with those configuration? How is it? are they working greate with linux + cPanel?

Comments please!!

Thanks

anyone? any comments?

Sounds like a nice server.

I personally think you will end up maxing our the cpu or memory before you use 2250GB of space. Also, whats your uplink connection.

Sounds like most of the server won't be used for a while unless you have a large client base already ready to go.

Combine RAID1 with RAID10 arrays and have RAID10 on 6 disks. Better speed with the same redundancy.

Why do you need that much storage for /, I understand the home storage, but your system will only take up a (Very Large) MAX of 20 GB... Why not use a few 80 GB Drives and save some money.

Here is something to consider, and I would highly recommend doing the following.

Instead fo putting everything on one mondo server, distribute it on multiple servers. This will allow you to pinpoint, and quarantine any hardware failure, or security issues. If one server goes down, you only have "30" clients without service vs "300" on your single server.

Also, if you have to perform a security audit on an abuse related topic, you only have 30 users to sift through vs 300 which could be very daunting.

Nobody likes 300 emails saying "Wheres my service!!"

Like the hull of a ship, there are sections to it so that if there is a puncture only said section is affected, vs the entire ship sinking. (sorry, that was the best analogy I could think of this side of midnight)

Glad to see you have redundant power supplies. The biggest downfall to Raid is having the power supply go out in the middle of a disk write and corrupting all drives in the raid. I have seen this so many times I can not even count it anymore. Raid is good for the speed, but for backup / redundancy is the stupidest idea to come along in the computer industry. 99% of the time its put into a computer (server) with a single power supply and all data is lost as soon as that power supply craps out.....

Glad to see you have redundant power supplies. The biggest downfall to Raid is having the power supply go out in the middle of a disk write and corrupting all drives in the raid. I have seen this so many times I can not even count it anymore. Raid is good for the speed, but for backup / redundancy is the stupidest idea to come along in the computer industry. 99% of the time its put into a computer (server) with a single power supply and all data is lost as soon as that power supply craps out.....

Sounds like you aren't buying backup batteries. If you have RAID, *always* get the backup battery. Or just don't turn on write caching and suffer the speed reduction, but for the speeds and reliability you'll get, the $150-ish you'll spend on the battery is well worth it.

if I do all 6 disks with raid10, will system treat as all one disk? or it will be seprated 3 disks?

Raid is good for the speed, but for backup / redundancy is the stupidest idea to come along in the computer industry. 99% of the time its put into a computer (server) with a single power supply and all data is lost as soon as that power supply craps out.....

I strongly disagree. If you have been having that kind of problem, you're probably using a poorly designed RAID card, or running without a battery module. I manage 2 racks full of RAID6 storage servers and over 75TB of capacity, and have never seen the issues you are describing.

If you are concerned with reliability, make sure to get a good RAID card from a reputable brand (Areca, 3ware, etc.), and if you turn on the write cache, make sure you have a battery module connected (or just turn off the write cache).

Sounds like excellent specs there :)

Hi,

I have got quote from server vendor and I am going to use below for shared/reseller hosting server.


Dual Intel Xeon Woodcrest 5130, 4x 2.0Ghz/2M L2 cores
Supermicro X7DVL-E dual socket 771 server board, Intel 5000V chipset
4G ECC FB-DIMM DDR2-533 ECC Registered (4x 1G, 2x open)
7x Western Digital 250-Gig SATA-II RAID Edition, 7200rpm
1x Western Digital 500-Gig SATA-II RAID Edition, 7200rpm
3ware 9550SX-8LP 8-port SATA-II RAID Controller, PCI-X 133mhz
on-board Intel dual-port gigabit NICs
on-board ATI ES1000 Video, 16M
Supermicro IPMI 2.0 Adapter (AOC-SIMLC)
8x slim DVD-ROM, no floppy drive
SuperMicro SC825TQ-R700LPB 2U Rack-mount Chassis
8x Hot-swap HDD Carriers & 1x8 SATA Backplanes
SuperMicro dual 700w Redundant Power Supplies

2x 250-Gig RAID1 for / (total 250GB space)

4x 250-Gig RAID10 for /home (total 500GB space)

1x 250-gig global hot-swap spare for both RAID1 and RAID10
1x 500-Gig for /backup (local backup)

And going to run linux(centos) with cPanel....

Can anyone give me advice or comment with those configuration? How is it? are they working greate with linux + cPanel?

Comments please!!

Thanks


First off, if you are using a Server Class Powersupply that Wattage is overkill. Save some Money.

This is what the company I work for uses, right now. I build them.

2 x Xeon 5320's (8 cores) costs roughly the same as dual core 5140's $462.00 Each
4 x 1GB ECC FB-DIMM DDR2-667 ECC Registered $91.00 Each
Super Micro X7DBE-0 $432.00 Each
Super Micro PCI-X riser card. $69.00 Each
3ware 9550SX-8LP 8-port SATA-II RAID Controller $450.00 Each
3ware Battery Backup unit. $105.00 Each
Chenbro 21508 2u server case with 8x SATA2 swappable drive bays. $365.00 Each
510 Watt Emacs 2u Powersupply $110.00 Each
3 x 150 Gig WD Raptors 10,000 RPM (2 mirrored for / 1 spare) $169.99 Each
5 x 750 Gig Seagates (2 mirrored for home, 2 for local backups, 1 spare) (probably overkill for some hosting companies) $249.00 Each

We also run Centos/cpanel

Currently looking at $4,574.00 per server in hardware at the moment. The drives are a big cost of it, and you can save some money there if you want to go cheaper, but I really reccomend using the Raptors for your o/s drives. If you are using cpanel your temp files are going to need the speed, if you plan on putting many customers on the box.

what if I do RAID10 for all disks.. what do you guys think?