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03-11-2012, 04:12 PM #1Junior Guru Wannabe
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Dual L5420 vs KimSufi 24G
I am currently paying around $70 (without upgrades for $50) for:
Dual L5420 (8 cores)
8Gb EEC RAM
2x 1Tb RAID 0 Harddrives ($15/month, regular 250Gb)
100mb/s, capped at 10Tb
6 IPv4 addresses ($1 each)
Located in California, which is a good thing for me, I might run some game servers on this server. (I live in Cali, too). Support the company provides is fast, and they give me good discounts.
I see Kimsufi has for around the same price:
i7 4x 2(HT)x 2.66+ GHz
24Gb RAM
2Tb HDD
I know KimSufi's location isn't as good, and service is mediocre, but do you think it's worth the go?
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03-11-2012, 04:23 PM #2cout << m_subtitle;
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Advantage(s) of switching:
You get 3 times the RAM that you currently have, however, are you low on RAM as it is?
You get a decent control panel (virtual KVM & easy OS reinstalls).
Single-core performance will be higher (an i7 920 (which is what you would get), total CPU power will drop, by a fair amount.
Disadvantages:
You will only have 1 HD, for the OS and all gameservers.
OVH's network to the US is pretty bad and I guess you could say terrible for gaming to other continents than Europe.
OVH's network is filled with seedboxes so speeds are not predictable at all.
Support itself is pretty much non-existent.
You seem happy with your host, the location and the service they provide. I would not switch, especially not to their network when the purpose of the server would be gaming.
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03-11-2012, 04:26 PM #3Junior Guru Wannabe
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03-11-2012, 04:30 PM #4cout << m_subtitle;
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One L5420 is probably about 2/3rd of an i7 920, so 2 of them would be faster. Also, how often do you need to reload your OS for that to be an issue?
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03-11-2012, 04:34 PM #5Junior Guru Wannabe
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I am a beginner with dedicated servers, though I would guess not that often since I am going to put VPS's on the server.
Since I am probably going to use Softaculous Virtualizor, (http://www.virtualizor.com/), do you think it would let me distribute my cores to my VPSs?
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03-11-2012, 04:39 PM #6cout << m_subtitle;
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Yes, you would actually be able to use all 8 cores with ease.
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03-11-2012, 04:43 PM #7Junior Guru Wannabe
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03-11-2012, 04:44 PM #8Junior Guru
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If you want to find infos about some CPU performance, take a look at http://www.cpubenchmark.net
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03-11-2012, 05:13 PM #9Web Hosting Master
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If you are happy with your provider i don't see any reason to change of provider.
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