Owned server hosts, what are your servers like?

[lullaby]

Well, I was thinking about the hosting providers here, and got curious as to what your configurations are like.

Because I know there are a few hosts on here that own their hardware and for example use 9700Ks/9900Ks, etc.

How many Us is each of your servers? What chassis do you use? What kind of configs are you running?
Might you be able to post pictures of your servers if you have some?

Like say if you're running a 9900k server, what kind of parts are you using? I assume you're using consumer level gaming parts? Or?

If you resell servers and don't actually have your own, don't comment pls idc.

Plus this thread is almost free marketing for you if you're a higher end host with custom servers

 

[Ian.D]

Most of our nodes are blade systems running Intel Xeon E5 series CPUs.
Our newer nodes now come standard with a minimum of 1x 2TB SSD.
The hardware we run is also company owned.
I don't have any new photos on hand of our newest Dallas rack with the newest blade systems but you can check out my Twitter, has some older pictures and photos of our racks.
https://twitter.com/Ian_D95/media

 

[lullaby]

Most of our nodes are blade systems running Intel Xeon E5 series CPUs.
Our newer nodes now come standard with a minimum of 1x 2TB SSD.
The hardware we run is also company owned.
I don't have any new photos on hand of our newest Dallas rack with the newest blade systems but you can check out my Twitter, has some older pictures and photos of our racks.
https://twitter.com/Ian_D95/media

I was a bit less interested in the xeon type servers , since those are usually just blades or 1U poweredges anyways.
But I've seen hosts on here offer 9900k servers , which are obviously a bit less standard, was particularly interested in what their setups for those looked like haha.

 

[Ian.D]

I was a bit less interested in the xeon type servers , since those are usually just blades or 1U poweredges anyways.
But I've seen hosts on here offer 9900k servers , which are obviously a bit less standard, was particularly interested in what their setups for those looked like haha.

We have built and hosted many I7's for 2000+ playerbase network and even an I9 for another client.
Server boards which support i7 are expensive in comparison to a desktop board as well last I checked didn't support overclocking.
You can find some desktop boards with IPMI (for remote management), but they are generally much higher in purchase cost.
When we built them for the large network we used just standard desktop boards, PSU, RAM, and NVME (Samsung Pro). You can purchase a 2U universal case to do the build like we did. The main concern is cooling in any I7 server build.
But thats what we did for our I7s.

 

[lullaby]

We have built and hosted many I7's for 2000+ playerbase network and even an I9 for another client.
Server boards which support i7 are expensive in comparison to a desktop board as well last I checked didn't support overclocking.
You can find some desktop boards with IPMI (for remote management), but they are generally much higher in purchase cost.
When we built them for the large network we used just standard desktop boards, PSU, RAM, and NVME (Samsung Pro). You can purchase a 2U universal case to do the build like we did. The main concern is cooling in any I7 server build.
But thats what we did for our I7s.

Yeah that's what I was curious about. I was thinking about if they used any server-grade parts, or just regular old consumer gaming parts.
What kind of air cooler did you use? I assume a regular fin stack with a fan that'll chop your fingers off pointed at it?

 

[Ian.D]

Yeah that's what I was curious about. I was thinking about if they used any server-grade parts, or just regular old consumer gaming parts.
What cooling solution did you use?

The DC we use keeps the temperature quite cool, so just a low profile desktop heat-sink with a powerful blower on the heatsink.
Our client really liked the servers, they worked well during the course of the time we used them we had no failures (just a DOA board).
If the DC is hot you may need to consider water cooling (if its allowed in your DC).

Ultimately though, as you mentioned they are consumer grade parts.
We build and rent them on a per request basis, our actual MC nodes are on enterprise hardware (blades).

Edit: I actually don't think many hosts here own the I7's or I9's they are running.
I would be curious to actually know which hosts owns them.

 

[NickE]

Lyphiard

 

[Lyphiard]

We use Supermicro 1U chassis with 4x hot-swap 3.5" bays for everything to allow fast custom hard drive configurations. With NVMe servers, the drives are usually more fixed since it's a M.2 form factor.

All of our Core i7/i9 servers have desktop-grade CPU's and memory in a server (Supermicro) motherboard, mainly for the IPMI so it can be easily managed remotely. We don't have any desktop motherboards, mainly due to their lack of IPMI. Even the i7/i9 configs have 1U heatsinks, fanless, with the server system fans pushing air through them. Temperatures are fine, even when the server is under load.

Here's a picture of one of our KVM nodes I took a few years back (E3-1240v5 / 64GB RAM / 4x500G RAID10 SSD), it's not a 9900k, but the setup is essentially the same:

Full rack picture, 40x 1U servers + TOR (Top of Rack) networking gear per rack

Spoiler: Bonus Picture of Network

Can't stop flexing this

 

[OSTKCabal]

Well, I was thinking about the hosting providers here, and got curious as to what your configurations are like.

Because I know there are a few hosts on here that own their hardware and for example use 9700Ks/9900Ks, etc.

How many Us is each of your servers? What chassis do you use? What kind of configs are you running?
Might you be able to post pictures of your servers if you have some?

Like say if you're running a 9900k server, what kind of parts are you using? I assume you're using consumer level gaming parts? Or?

If you resell servers and don't actually have your own, don't comment pls idc.

Plus this thread is almost free marketing for you if you're a higher end host with custom servers

I know I'm a bit late to the party, but we've got 5 racks of servers in Chicago. The vast majority of them are fairly standard Supermicro 1Us with 4x hot-swap bays. We've always used Supermicro boards but we're exploring ASRock Rack for a variety of needs - after all, ASRock Rack supports Ryzen and their IPMI kicks Supermicro's ass

We semi-recently started offering the higher-end, higher-power servers like the i9-9900K with NVMe drives. Basically, one can still easily put these servers in the 1U chassis with passive-cooling heatsinks with no problem - the key is the chassis fans. Our i9 chassis fans can run up to 13,000 RPMs (which is insane to think about).

We've been able to get the i9s to all-core turbo under load (around 4.4GHz) at a very comfortable 52-53 degrees Celsius.

 

[lullaby]

I know I'm a bit late to the party, but we've got 5 racks of servers in Chicago. The vast majority of them are fairly standard Supermicro 1Us with 4x hot-swap bays. We've always used Supermicro boards but we're exploring ASRock Rack for a variety of needs - after all, ASRock Rack supports Ryzen and their IPMI kicks Supermicro's ass

We semi-recently started offering the higher-end, higher-power servers like the i9-9900K with NVMe drives. Basically, one can still easily put these servers in the 1U chassis with passive-cooling heatsinks with no problem - the key is the chassis fans. Our i9 chassis fans can run up to 13,000 RPMs (which is insane to think about).

We've been able to get the i9s to all-core turbo under load (around 4.4GHz) at a very comfortable 52-53 degrees Celsius.

Yeah the 40mm fans are kinda insane compared to any "normal" 120mm fan. The ones I use are 19,000RPM 30CFM counter rotating fans.... and ... yeah they move a stupid amount of air to say the least.