Friday, April 06
Comparison Shopping
I'm looking around at pricing on a newer, shinier server for the newer, shinier mee.nu I'm working on. The baseline config I'm using is this:
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I'm looking around at pricing on a newer, shinier server for the newer, shinier mee.nu I'm working on. The baseline config I'm using is this:
- Dual Xeon E5-2620 (2 x 6 cores, 2GHz)
- 64GB RAM
- 2 x 2TB disks
- 2 x ~200GB SSDs
- Hardware RAID-1
- 10TB bandwidth on 100Mbps port
- Remote access over IPMI
Let's see what I get from five different vendors, taking list price off the website of each:
- $615/month (but only 160GB SSDs)
- $655/month (240GB SSDs)
- $698/month (256GB SSDs)
- $764/month (240GB SSDs)
- $2,979/month (200GB SSDs)
Guess who's the odd one out?
Update: Sent out a couple of emails, got a reply back from number 3 who kindly pointed me to their latest specials. I might be getting a smaller server with them to try things out, and if it all works well, get two more.
And when I say "smaller" I mean 16 CPUs and 32GB of RAM, which is one-third more of each than have at the moment. And then three of those. I expect we can get four times our current capacity for the same price.
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SoftLayer thinks you're a captive audience, methinks.
Posted by: Steven Den Beste at Saturday, April 07 2012 12:13 AM (+rSRq)
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Considering that for their price you could get the same config with all four of those competitors and still have money left over, they've likely got a rude awakening coming.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Saturday, April 07 2012 01:20 AM (PiXy!)
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