Dedicated Servers

[ServerScale]

Hi there!

I'm currently looking to rent two identical Dedicated Servers.
My requirements are as following:

- /24 IPv4 Subnet (.1-127 on first Machine, .128-254 on secondary Machine)
- min. 128GB, preferably 256GB.
- 2x 2TB or 2x 4TB SSDs (Soft RAID 1)
- Redundant PSU's or Uplinks not required, but looking to see 99,99% uptime.
- Europe Location
- AMD Epyc or Intel Xeon Processor (General Usage Optimised)
- 1Gbps (Dedicated) Uplink, if it's possible within the budget, I'd happily take 10Gbps (non-dedicated).
- Budget: 300€/mo (per machine)

These Servers will be running VM instances. The CPU doesn't need to have as much horsepower, but also not too less.

If you have any offers or know any providers that can offer these requirements around my budget, please let me know!

Thank you lots.

 

[SSH]

Speaking of Hivelocity, you can purchase machines from them and have them announce the prefixes for you, you can rent them from Heficed or prager-it.

 

[AlexC]

Thank you all for your great ideas!

If needed, I can top up my budget agaib, I guess.

Can someone explain what they mean by NAT on the Host Systems?

NAT stands for Network Address Translation and it is the process of a routing device on your network "Translating" your local private IP address into a public IP address. This was created when everyone realized that IPV4 was limited and was a way to conserve public IP space. This is something that your home router does. You can setup numerous VM's with all different private IP address's that would then translate into 1 public IPV4 on your NIC. Just depending on what you are trying to accomplish....

But just like everyone else has pointed out here, it would be roughly $1 per IP monthly anywhere you go so that is already $254 per month for just IP space not even counting in costs for the hardware that you are requesting. If you are trying to start a VPS host, then you can start with a smaller block and request additional resources as you go but then again, not sure what you are requesting the resources for.

 

[callmoo]

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They are a UK company so definitely do haha.

They actually also own Nitrous Networks who are a Minecraft host that has been around since about 2010! One of the largest UK hosts.

 

[ServerScale]

Well, NAT seems to be a great idea, however I would need at least SSH or Web Access to each VM itself, publicly. Without a VPN.

 

[AlexC]

Well, NAT seems to be a great idea, however I would need at least SSH or Web Access to each VM itself, publicly. Without a VPN.

Yeah, then sort out out of luck here if you don't want to use a VPN to access.

 

[AlexC]

Not true, but okay

For the pricing he wants, yes it would be impossible.

 

[AlexC]

He can still use NAT without VPN access, it's not exactly recommended since it would be a bit messy, but if he's open to doing that, it's possible.

If he wants each machine to have it's own public address individually, then that would be correct. But it depends on his use case.

Yeah, which we haven't found out yet lol. Thats what will decide which route is best. Most providers won't assign a /24 without a valid use case anyway so that might not even be a valid option depending on what OP is planning.

 

[ServerScale]

I think we shouldn't worry too much about the IPs. If I am able to colocate my gateway box with the two servers and have them plug into it, then I could just purchase IPs from my local ISP (for business) and have it be in a tunnel to the colocated gateway. The gateway itself would only need a /29 to operate by itself. It's about 1€/IP with my current provider.