Recommended Managed Services Provider?

Hello

I would need a server/whole data migration from my previous provider


Currently it is running:
VPS - Windows server 2012 r2 (my own license)


i want everything migrated, and up & running without any issue to the new server, can anyone recommend me any good provider that offer this server FOC


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thanks

I'm currently designing a new server architecture in colab with a server tech, we'll need 4 dedicated servers and he has recommended to setup server virtualization via Virtuozzo, his reasoning is that it will make it easy to migrate to better hardware when needed. This seems like a good idea but some devs are telling my that it will degrade the performance of the boxes is this true? His plan is to install OS on 2 x SATA(Raid 1) drives and then place the virtualization on 2 x SSD's (Raid 1)
I would like a 2nd opinion on this,
Does the virtualization degrade performance, IF it does then by how much? Is it really this convenient to use such a virtualization setup in reference to migration? Any other thing to consider?

Thanks!

Im needing to migrate content from our site, like OnlyFans, from Wasabi.
We allow content creators sell their content via subscriptions to their posts.
We allow content creators of all types as long as its legal.
Financial Advisors, Gamers, Artists, Photographers, Programmers and whoever else wants to sell access to their owned, created digital content.
However, some of our content creators are amateur models who post nudes.
They make up about 16% of our content creators as on June, 2021 and its growing.
It all falls within the laws and is heavily moderated plus multiple reporting options.

Needs\Wants:
I'm looking for a scalable hosting solution that allows legal porngraphic content. I would like to start out with 2TB-4TB of SATA disk space but be able to scale up\add more as needed. Content migration is expected to take 6-8 months. After full migration is complete, it will be over 20TB. Looking to pay around $30-$50\month for the 2TB\4TB plan to start off with but would also need a quote on the 20TB plan when migration is complete. A 30-day trial would be a big plus. It will give us time to migrate our web app plus a little content to test performance. I can put down some $$ if needed though.

I'm currently considering:
SeriesN SoYouStart Terraform HostDZire NetDynamics Flokinet Netshop VSYS NexusBytes

Looking for a dedicated server managed preferably, DirectAdmin or Interworxk panel. Must be able to assist with migration from Interworxk panel.

Something or someone who is reliable and won't change your bill/invoice amount ever now and then (i consider that as unethical practice, but that's just me, let's not discuss about that here) . For specs looking for 16 gb ram, 1 x 500 gb drive and 1 additional drive for keeping just local backups etc. USA or Canada doesn't matter. CPU - hmm. don't really have that many sites to run so load wise don't need those fancy chips !

Budget - guess under 150 a month would be ideal

I've been thinking about Hetzner's 16GB RAM managed server (VSERVER MC50 49.00) to host a web server backed by Postgresql, Redis and Elasticsearch. Do you have other suggestions at similar price range ( 49 - 60) or comments on their managed products? I don't need control panels. I want someone to take care of security or hardware stuff. I may use docker-compose to install those apps. I have used their Cloud VPS on and off but no experience with dedicated server.
One thing I don't like about Hetzner's is that port-forwarding is not allowed, which means the Postgresql and Elasticsearch ports have to be exposed in order to use DBeaver on my desktop to manage database stuff.

We have some older SolusVM nodes in the UK & NL that we are looking to upgrade to Proxmox. Our current hosts have been fairly reliable from an uptime/network perspective but not the greatest when it comes to support. Not that we need it very often but when a node is having issues, response times and capable support techs are important. That being said we are looking provider for recommendations with the following requirements.

1) Familiar with Proxmox however we will take care of installing/managing Proxmox via IPMI/ssh/web interface.
2) Able to provide custom hardware configs and possibly private VLAN's for backups or subnet overlays for multiple nodes to share IP space.
3) Responsive support with a clue and knowledgeable pre-sales staff to help spec the servers.
4) Tier 4 DC in London and Amsterdam (or can be 2 different providers).

We're also considering just reselling VPS services so we're also open recommendations on VPS resellers in those locations.

And Go.....

TIA

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!

I rented a dedicated server about 6 months ago and at the beginning it wasn't really any issues.
Heres the downtime report https://i.imgur.com/mE5V2eJ.png

At the beginning i encountered few downtimes but that was due their network being compromised and it can happend sometimes and the owner promise they will upgrade their infrastructure to fix this issue.
After few months after, my server lost power and rebooted. The owner replied back that they will fix this issue but the same issue occured again however their provided reason at that time was because their UPS malfunctioned.
Few more downtimes after that incident, they said, fire department told them to shutdown their power, while their electricity provider had an occuring issues beyond their help. Excuses keep piling on and its almost as if they dont even have UPS.

Last year october and november my server started to randomely reboot with seemlingly no explanation. I hired sysadmin and they couldnt find an issue. They suggested this could be a hardware issue. Due to the hardware parts it would take provider months before the provider can replace all the hardwares so i had to wait.
And waiting i did, and until when the day finally arrived. From all my exchanges with this company, ive only talked with the actual owner. This seems to be really a one man show. Worst is that this owner is incompetent.


So we went through with the server swap, changing ssd to the new server hardware. However issue occured with the new hardware enviroment not recognizing my ssd partitions. Sysadmin couldnt do much in rescue mode as they cant gain the error logs which dracut provided in the failure mode.
The issue is that the dracut log is generated in a volatile disk path so ifwe rebooted the logs would be gone.

The owner had significant issues where the server didnt recognize the flash drives so we couldnt export the logs.
This was a 24 hours conversation exchange. We litterally end up googling. Even the owner was googling and asking if a centos forum post could be the solution.

I asked if they can setup a KVM so my sysadmin can access the dracut logs.
24 hours after, the owner still has problem setting up kvm.
That was my last patience with this provider. I told him to change back to the old server hardware and the server was online again. I ordered a new server from a different provider(reliablehostingservices.net) and did rsync and terminated my server with dedioutlet.

The sheer amount of incompetence is just baffling. Owner googling for solution, trying to ask his "developer" on how to fix kvm setup to no avail.

I'm wondering what kind of price range I'll be looking at for a high end server in North America (Canada is OK), preferably around east coast.

Let's say hardware I need is:
- many cores EPYC cpu
- 128-256G ram
- 4x~4TB nvme
- 2x10G connection (for burst, not sustained traffic), <100TB traffic
- redundant PSU
- many 9's uptime
- single tenant, 1 ipv4 + 1 ipv6

The servers would be worker node for a saas so I don't need the lowest latency to major markets. DC's in an empty desert, tundra, or in the middle of corn fields are OK

Is 500-600$ per month possible for this setup?

I'm actually OK with the cost structure similar to colocating (large $$$$ upfront, small $ recurring) if I trust the provider's reputation enough. But the DIY nature of colo when it comes to h/w replacement and networking is not for me. I actually tried colocating using a low-end hardware a short while back to test the waters, ended up leaving said hardware with the colo provider (after paying my bills of course).

Just a chit-chat thread, not gonna commit to anything until the next couple of months.

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