~£4,000 Development Server

[Samuel]

I was tasked at work with finding a good server deal to replace our existing development server.

https://www.novatech.co.uk/modifier.html?s=SR-0152&b=15087

Can I get some feedback?

The two SAS drives are going to be in RAID. The WD RED 1TB is there since it's included for free.

It'll host GitLab, Jenkins and a few other things.

 

[Fire]

Personally I use this site:

http://www.bargainhardware.co.uk/ch...sixteen-core-cloud-server-configure-to-order/

£324.99 with two E5-2650 and 64GB RAM

http://cpuboss.com/cpus/Intel-Xeon-E5-2650-vs-Intel-E5-2650V4

Not a great deal of difference in specs of the CPU. Main draw back is only 8 cores instead of 12. But there is two of them vs the 1 in the dedi you're thinking of getting, so I guess it evens out.

Ditch the SAS, and get 4x480GB SSD ~£130 each. RAID 10, leaves you almost 1TB high speed storage. Consumes slightly less power than SAS and will also be faster.

If you need more storage, add 6x960GB SSD ~ £200 each. In RAID 10, that gives you almost 3TB storage. (£1,525) still less than half the price.

I've never seen the need to buy the latest server hardware, it costs so much, by been behind a few years, you save so much money, and the performance difference isn't really noticeable.

That's just the basic idea, but you can do it with other older servers, depending on what you need.

 

[Samuel]

Personally I use this site:

http://www.bargainhardware.co.uk/ch...sixteen-core-cloud-server-configure-to-order/

£324.99 with two E5-2650 and 64GB RAM

http://cpuboss.com/cpus/Intel-Xeon-E5-2650-vs-Intel-E5-2650V4

Not a great deal of difference in specs of the CPU. Main draw back is only 8 cores instead of 12. But there is two of them vs the 1 in the dedi you're thinking of getting, so I guess it evens out.

Ditch the SAS, and get 4x480GB SSD ~£130 each. RAID 10, leaves you almost 1TB high speed storage. Consumes slightly less power than SAS and will also be faster.

If you need more storage, add 6x960GB SSD ~ £200 each. In RAID 10, that gives you almost 3TB storage. (£1,525) still less than half the price.

I've never seen the need to buy the latest server hardware, it costs so much, by been behind a few years, you save so much money, and the performance difference isn't really noticeable.

That's just the basic idea, but you can do it with other older servers, depending on what you need.

RAID 1 SAS drives was a requirement

 

[InsertNameHere]

what stuff do you do? are you a programmer at your job?

 

[Samuel]

what stuff do you do? are you a programmer at your job?

Yes

 

[InsertNameHere]

Yes

ah cool well I think the one that you are looking at has plenty of power