860 PRO 512G vs 870 EVO 1TB

Hi,

i have 10 hdds,i set the partitions

sda1 for /boot/efi,
sda2~sdj2 for /boot with mdadm raid1,
sda3~sdj3 for swap with mdadm raid10,
sda4~sdj4 for /with mdadm raid10,

when centos shows install finished and i can reboot,
the mdadm is still resync and very slow,
if i reboot,the server can not boot into os at all.

do i make wrong on which steps ?

Hi,

if i have 8 SATA3 SSD, for shared hosting,
i want to run cloudlinux and cpanel on it.

compare hardware raid card with mdadm raid10,
do you recommend which one ?

i make searching,

1. some people say raid card will be quicker,
but cpu are quick now,does it really have the difference ?

2. some people say raid card has battery and mdadm only server power,
when server's power fail,
mdadm's raid data may break,is it real ?

Hello,

So with the recent announcement of CentOS coming to and end i find myself wondering which is the best option for a new Dedicated server.

Do I still go with CentOS 7 or is there an alternative option now?

I know that CentOS is only EOL in 2024 and CentOS 8 is EOL now in this year 2021. So it makes very little sense to go with CentOS 8.

Any opinions welcome

This is my first post on Web Hosting Talk Forum. I need your help. My server consists of 2 hard drives. 1TB x 2 SATA. In last week my server gets slow down and the data center noticed that I have an issue with my hard drive. They said " We are showing drive SDB is failing and will need to be replaced, " They asked me to take a backup and replace the hard drive immediately.

I have 2 hard drives and I have installed CentOS 7 with software RAID 1 ( Software RAID ). So now my question is do I need to restore the backup once we replace the hard drive. ? or is it syncing with RAID without any manual backup restoration ?

Hello,
do you think I could get the following configuration for $290/month or less?

2x 8 Core Xeon E5-2620v4 / 2,1GHz 20MB
128GB PC4-17000P 2133MHz
2 SSD x 960GB
2 HDD x 6 TB (raid1)
1 HDD x 8 Tb

Hi,

With your experience,

1. For hosting sites(such as WordPress),
Will nvme ssd be much quicker than sata ssd ?

2. Will ssd with hardware raid card be much quicker than mdadm software raid ?

Ive been a customer of KnownHost for over 5 years. As my sites have been growing Ive used several of their different managed VPS and dedicated servers throughout the years. This has given me great insight both into their hardware performance and the customer support for the managed services they provide.

As most website owners know there are the occasional days which are nothing but headaches. Slow loading and watching as traffic drops. Its not fun at the moment but its part of the game. The most recent event was today and that gave me this reminder to take some time out of my day to write this review.

KnownHost is one of the best hosting providers out there which truly look after their customers. Today, as many times previously, they went far and beyond to resolve the issues with my dedicated server and helped boost the performance on my site significantly.

As someone who is not a developer it is truly a great feeling to know that a response from KnownHosts support staff is never but a few minutes away. This might sound too much like a 90s TV commercial, but I cant praise them enough! 5 years and they are still as good as back then (or maybe even better actually).

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This current admin company is driving me insane! They are literally making my server worse...

I have lost so much money in production time of not being able to develop websites!

This sever is for basic business sites.

So I am moving this server from dedicated self-managed (with 3rd party admin) and now need a fully managed server.

This is just to host multiple websites. so we very rarely have issues on the server.

I need cpanel/whm

I am used to having multiple processors with multiple cores, but they are quite old, so maybe the more powerful processors can beat it?

It's an old server but has been a workhorse for development with no real issues.

i'd like the equivalent or better. Ideally under $200 month ($150 would be great!)

-- is this even possible?

who do you recommend? Any black friday/cyber Monday specials?



--------current server specs---
Intel 2x L5630
Dedicated Server
Operating System: cPanel/WHM (CentOS 7 x64)
Bandwidth: 20TB on 1Gbps Port
Service Title: Intel 2x L5630
Service Options: Service Plan: Intel 2x Xeon L5630 Westmere 4-Core Dell Node
Operating System: Linux- CentOS 64-bit with cPanel/WHM 64-bit
Hard Drive 1: 500GB HDD
Hard Drive 2: None (+$0.00)
Hard Drive 3: None (+$0.00)
Hard Drive 4: None (+$0.00)
Hard Drive 5: None (+$0.00)
Hard Drive 6: None (+$0.00)
Raid Card- LSI 9260-8i 6G w/ 512MB Cache: Included / No Raid (+$0.00)
Power Supply: Dual Power (+$0.00)
RAM: 24GB (+$0.00)
Bandwidth: 20.0TB on 1Gbps Port (+$0.00)
IPv4 Addresses: 5 Usable (/29) (+$0.00)

Hi All -

Wanted to see people's experience with Ceph builds (3/5 nodes) using an AMD Epyc2 with NVME drives. One of my questions is actual power consumption; trying to understand what our electricity costs will be like for the year . I am looking at this for our potential config with 3 nodes:

1x Supermicro A+ Server 1114S-WN10RT
1x AMD EPYC 7302P, 3.00GHz, 16C/32T, Socket SP3, tray
4x 32GB SK hynix DDR4-3200 CL22 (2Gx4) ECC reg. DR
1x MON: 256GB Samsung SSD PM981a NVMe, M.2 (PCIe)
10x OSD: 7,68TB Samsung SSD PM1733, 2.5 Zoll, U.2 PCIe 4.0 x4, NVMe
1x Mellanox MCX414A-BCAT ConnectX-4 EN NIC
- 40/56GbE dual-port QSFP+ PCIe3.0 x8

My DC (New Continuum, great DC with very friendly staff by the way, highly recommended if you need a DC in Chicago suburbs) just informed me that my server which has been there since 2012, is completely dead with no LED turns on when power buttons are pressed. Coincidentally I have another server rented from OVH Strasburg so it is really great timing...

Grief aside, I guess I am now becoming an unwilling buyer for another server hardware.

The server that was just dead was a HP DL160 G6 with a single INTEL XEON E5504 CPU and RAID10 with 4x320GB HDD, the contract I have with DC is for 1U rackmount and 1amp of power. The server has 5-6 VMWare VMs (mixture between Windows Server 2008 and Debian) installed and is for my personal use only (running a mixture of Python/MS-SQL/MySQL), no deep learning or big data crazy stuff. If I can choose to upgrade I would like to upgrade to a faster CPU (and obviously larger disk space) - while keeping it under 1amp.

My budget is around 700 USD (since this was how much I paid 9 years ago). I have not followed up with server hardware specs (this is my one and only owned server, the others are all rented) for the past 9 years so apologies in advance if I sound quite ignorant.

So given all the above, my questions for the wise folks in WHT a

1. What is a sample "modern" hardware spec I can get with my budget and with my current service level (1U and 1amp of power)? Is there any brand/model you'd recommend? I can buy parts separately and ship to DC as well since I have free remote hands but ideally would prefer to buy a pre-built server like the HP I had before.

2. Is there any value in savage at least part of the dead server (CPU/RAM, etc, I suspect the issue is probably just a fried motherboard or PSU, but not sure if I should buy another PSU to send to DC) rather than having it tossed away for good?

Forgot to mention I'd prefer to buy the server in US (ideally located close to Chicago) so that I don't have to pay for 1000 bucks for shipping and wait for 5 months (especially given this year), I know there are (or at least there used to be) better deals out of Europe but that's a bit too far for me.

Of course if there is any suggestion you might have to try to see if the server could be brought back from dead please kindly share as well. No LED lights light on at the moment.

Thanks in advance for everyone's help!