[TriLUG] colo and dedicated servers

Gary Carr garycarr at carolina.net
Thu Jun 13 16:23:44 EDT 2013


We just purchased some Dell C1100's with dual xeon cpus and 72GB of ram 
for $450 each off ebay. We loaded CentOS and KVM and have more than 7 
virtual machines running on them.


Gary


> Folks,
>
> I know that this is coming late in the day, but I have been doing
> research on this project for several days, and finally came to the
> oracle.
>
>
> I am dealing with a vendor who is selling a company that I consult to, a
> service that requires that they provide seven Windows desktop-class ( XP
> Pro, Server 2003, etc ) machines, to run instances of their software.
>
> I said that that was rediculous, that a single Linux box could easily
> support seven Windows virtual machines, more effiently and with combined
> resources and reduced hardware. ( no redundant items )
>
>
> The question at this moment, to me, is whether to go with a "dedicated
> server" somewhere, or a co-lo and install a box that we have purchased.
>
> I tend to favour the latter, because I feel that, despite the cost of a
> 1U box ( $3,000 - $5,000 ), the monthly cost of the co-lo over the
> dedicated server will result in a break-even somewhere in the
> neighbourhood of a year.
>
> What do you think, and do you have any recommendations for either
> option?
>
>
> Thanks,
> Brian
>



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