Running a VPS node?

[jamilv]

I was wondering what you guys think about how many VPS nodes should fit on the following server, not to overload it but basically all the same plan, something that would allow the people who buy the nodes to run an rdp or seedbox or whatever.

2 * Xeon X5680 (6 core @ 3.33ghz)
72GB 1066mhz ram
It has 8 SAS hard drives, all 600GB running at 15k rpm (The reviews say they do 170-200mb/sec sustained read/write)
All that on a 1gbit shared line (extremely undersold)

I was looking around at VPS plans and I guess something like 100gb space and 1.5-2gb ram is an average plan...but how many of these would I be able to fit on the server without overloading based on the CPU?

jamilv Reviewed by jamilv on 2nd Dec 2010. Running a VPS node? I was wondering what you guys think about how many VPS nodes should fit on the following server, not to overload it but basically all the same plan, something that would allow the people who buy the nodes to run an rdp or seedbox or whatever. 2 * Xeon X5680 (6 core @ 3.33ghz) 72GB 1066mhz ram It has 8 SAS hard drives, all 600GB running at 15k rpm (The reviews say they do 170-200mb/sec sustained read/write) All that on a 1gbit shared line (extremely undersold) I was looking around at Rating: 5

[m107]

First of all, with that cpu, I don't think if you can sell more than 30 gig from ram, this server will be great for shared VMS, such as openVz.
btw, how much is the server price? have you consider the needed bandwidth?

[DLow]

170-200mb/sec isnt really that fast for re write honestly

And if your looking to host a lot of VMs go for a duel qaud

[jamilv]

Its actually a private dedicated internet line in Toronto. Its run from a family business so I know that usage is never over 200mbit of the achievable ~950mbit (The government actually pays for a majority of the line haha)
So speed wise there wont be a problem even if I run a few of these servers.
I was looking at changing the HDs with the 1TB OCZ SSDs but I know extremely few hosts use anything more than 15k rpm hard drives in their servers for hosting seedbox plans and stuff, I mean even with a whole 950mbit available, you cant do more than 115mb/sec reguardless. The cost between the sas and the ssd are just to different to make the vps prices reasonable (its like a 15 times price increase)

The CPU in the server I'm probably leaving since its just too much hassle to change it out. I have a workstation I was thinking of using as a server with the dual quads at 3.33ghz but not everything in it is server grade, and I didnt want to waste my revodrive on a server haha

[Bret]

You were looking at 1TB SSD drives? Are you planning to make profit any time during your lifetime?

It's a nice specification for a node, but to be honest I wouldn't put all of your eggs in one basket. Go with a few, smaller, cheaper servers and balance it out. It will be much better / easier to manage than say having all of your VPS on that node, something goes wrong and uh oh, all of your clients are offline screaming at you. Whereas if one node goes down, it's cheaper to get another similar server up and running, hell, depending on the load on the other machines you could probably offload them onto the others. But if your big node goes offline and you've blown all of your cash on that, then things are going to get messy