Dedicated server with ability to provision VPS

Hello,

I am starting my own business selling game servers. I am going to purchase a dedicated server monthly, install tcadmin to automatically allocate resources to new customers buying their own servers for various different video game titles. How will I know when my first dedicated server will reach its limit? In other words how will I know what prices/plans to set to flip a profit on my first dedicated server?

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks.

I'm a small business owner and developer since 2003. We have a few dedicated servers, each one with a different host. One of these hosts was sold and the new owner wants us to use a new server in a new location. We are considering switching to another host. This server runs some important client web sites, our own site, and web apps we're developing.

What we're looking for:
- unmanaged bare metal dedicated server, Intel Xeon 4c/8t minimum, 6 or 8 core preferred
- 16GB RAM, 32GB RAM preferred
- 1TB (or 960GB) SSD, 2 x SSD software RAID preferred
- FreeBSD 11 or 12 (our other servers are FreeBSD 11.4)
- $140/month or less (we're paying $130/month now for the current server, no SSD, 16GB)
- US data center, east coast preferred

Obviously we want a decent data center and good customer support but we also want a company who is going to be around for the next 10 years and isn't likely to be bought up by some Wall Street investment firm who doesn't care about the customers of the smaller hosting firms they're purchasing.

Hosts I'm researching:
- Vultr
- OVHcloud (the US branch)
- Linode
- Hivelocity

So far, OVH seems to have the exact hardware, price point, and data center but their billing system worries me.

If you have any experience with these hosts, good or bad, please share. If you work for one of these hosts, I'm open to offers.

thanks,

Robert

I heard of Tempest hosting from several Discord servers, and give it a try.

Bought an M610 dedicated server in Amsterdam, running X5677, 32GB RAM, 900GB storage, 10gbps dedicated unmetered port. yes, you're not reading it wrong.

Onboarding process, it was smooth sailing. Registered, paid, and their IPMI system will automatically install the OS I chose. They also provide "Firewall Manager", where we can add filters on what ports/ips/protocols should be allowed/rejected to our server IP. They also provide DDoS filters, such as OpenVPN/VSE/TCP/TS3.

Compared to other providers, specs/hardware wise, there are far better options (ryzen/epyc/E5), but considering the price, no other providers can offer what they offer. 10gbit unmetered dedicated port for only US$150/mo!?

They do offer Ryzen servers, but I think it's a pre-order system and takes 2-6 weeks.

Network wise, the downside is that they're not on any exchanges/IXs (AMS-IX, DE-CIX, NL-IX, LINX, etc). They only use tier-1 upstreams (GTT & NTT), so sometimes routing outside of Europe (specifically Asia Pacific) is a bit weird.

In terms of support, they offer two options, either via WHMCS or their Discord server. All of the people who I talk to are friendly and knowledgeable.

Overall, for $150/mo, 10gbps unmetered port, it's fantastic. I hope that more & better specs will be available in the near future.

Hello, a little introduction on what we are working on.

We are launching a B2B fully white labeled hosting reseller platform, making it possible for resellers to resell all hosting services for free without having to pay before they are able to resell on their custom website. How it works?


We working on over 20 templates for the launch next Month so you just registers and select a template, point a domain, modify costs and the reseller site is ready. No need for WHMCS, we are building a replica from scratch and it's even simpler and more user friendly for all end users to use in managing their domains and hosting (fully automated).
So this is like an advance Affiliate system, or you can call it hosting drop-shipping or any name you wish. Lots of work, funds and several other resources have been invested into this already and with all things being equal we are going to be able to fit into this very Competitive Market.


WHAT WE WANT, AND WHY THIS THREAD WAS CREATED.
We have invested a lot already for the development and we just want to partner with existing datacenter owners in several locations. We are looking for the best, affordable and reliable dedicated servers out there where we can sign an agreement with these Companies. As a startup we want to focus on managing the application, Marketing the products and providing support while we partner with data center owners.

Between the first 3 Months after launch we are expecting between 5,000 to 15,000 active Resellers since it's pretty easy to setup and modify the pre-built site, so at a rough estimate, we are expecting between 200 - 500 active dedicated servers to be ordered all things being equal with our Marketing budget and skills. So we really hope if we can get <<recommendations>> here.

Thanks

Anyone have any recommendations for dedicated GPU server providers in Asia? We work with providers like CherryServers in the EU, and they work great. Looking for someone like that in Singapore, Korea, Thailand, or surrounding countries.

Hi,
I am configuring Virtualizor on my dedicated server and I want to create a default Namserver for all my VPS machines. Can someone please guide me with this? I am looking for something like "ns1.contabo.com" & "ns2.contabo.com" You know that we can use this NS values in all contabo VPS's to point domains.

I don't know how to make it done :/ I have pointed my domain to the server main IP (where I installed virtualizor) but even the hostname is not live and I can't access anything using that domain / hostname.

I am planning to purchase a dedicated server to virtualize with proxmox. I have gone through OVH and hetzner plans but I was more attracted to online.net (scaleway dedibox) better than the first two. Have anyone used online.net dedicated servers over UAE location? How is the speed? Please let me know which of these companies will be providing the best server and if you have any better suggestion (within the price range of these companies).

Any of these providers does not have any DC in UAE or GCC. As such, please do let me know the DC location to be selected along with the server provider.

Not sure if this is the right category.. I want to know what makes a server speedy. My issue is, I tried about 6 servers the last 6 months.

Reseller Hostmantis (5$ a month)
VPS cloudcone 10 core 16 GB ram (50$) a month + cpanel (15$) + litespeed (30$) a month
VPS from a dutch guy, 8 core, 16GB ram, directadmin (70 a month)
Cloudcone VPS: 10 cores, 60GB ram, Cpanel + litespeed = like 70 a month).
Wpprovider (claims to have to fastest dutch hosting): 25,- a month.
Neostrada magento hosting (6 core, 8GB ram, cpanel = 20,- a month)

Believe it or not, but the freaking 5$ per month SHARED (!!!!) RESELLER (!!!!!) is the fastest of them all. And I really don't understand how that is possible. Is there anybody who can explain to me what makes a server fast? First I thought it was litespeed, so i bought a litespeed license for by VPS'ses. Then I thought it was the lack of RAM, so i went to Contabo with 60 freaking GB of ram WITH litespeed. And even that is slower if I 1:1 compare it with a 100% duplicated site on that Hostmantis reseller package...

Then a guy from Asia who tried to improve the pagespeed for a webshop copied the site to his dedicated server and the results were INSANELY fast. I asked him his config and he said:

2 X Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2650
32 Cores
64 GB ram
2 X SSD Drive

He said he didn't had Litespeed, only Memcache installed.

Is there anybody who can tell me what makes a server fast? Is it the RAM? the CPU? The managing? The location? The LITEspeed/Memcached/Redis? And when does it make sense to get a Dedicated server instead of a VPS?

About me: As side job I build websites. Most of them very easy, 3 page wordpress sites with no visitors. I host about 60. They don't really care about speed, cause they are happy if there are There are some bigger clients (3 with a woocommerce webshop, 1 with a magento webshop) for which speed IS important.

What I would like is
THE FASTEST Server possible for my amount
At least 500GB SSD storage
Managed
Backups remotely (and something like JEtbackup)
Softacalous
Cpanel + WHM (100 accounts)
Budget: Under like 180$ for all (if that is anyway possible).

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.

Hello,

I am looking for premium* dedicated server providers offering Intel Scalable Processors. (Or the latest Processor that can offer min 2x16Core (without HT))
I would prefer EU location but any US location with better pings to South Asia would work as well.

So far, I have looked into LeaseWeb, PhoenixNap, Hivelocity. Wondering what else is out there .. Any provider you think gives similar network and support to their clients?

Premium = Support is always available for any network / server / hardware related issue. And any issue gets address timely. (Don't have to wait an hour for an update). Don't need full management.

Thanks