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January 19th, 2006, 5:39 PM
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Customized Dedicated Hardware
Do you think it would be a good idea if Surpass offered customized dedicated server solutions?
Customizations I'm Currently Thinking of: Hard Drive Size: don't always need 80 / 120 GB on a server Hard Drive Type: SCSI vs. (S)ATA/IDE Hard Drive Speeds: 7200 RPM vs. 10k RPM vs. 15k RPM RAID: RAID[type & #disks] vs. No RAID at all Will any additional options ever become available?(perhaps Kayla could answer this part)
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January 19th, 2006, 6:06 PM
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Well, you can always built your own server and send it to Surpass to host. So, it is an option, really. Harddrive features seem to be of less importance in the grande scheme of things on a server, and the available dedi's already seem to cover such a wide spectrum... perhaps it's something for the future though. But if it's something you need, then colocation can always be considered.
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January 19th, 2006, 6:25 PM
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True. Now that I think about what I mainly want to do, co-lo may actually be a cheaper solution in the long run.
What I'm trying to do is set up an NFS (or maybe a few) server to keep my site files in sync. The NFS server would essentially only be utilized through the other servers on the VLAN, so I could always get the cheapest co-lo plan since the only real bandwidth usage would be over the VLAN and not general internet access.
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January 19th, 2006, 11:43 PM
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That's what I was thinking, Rai. Doing a colo, expecially for the kind of needs your site seems to have (you know, handling those many millions of women that flood my page every day), you may be better off with building one yourself.
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