Please can someone help me with the specs of the Windows VPS servers which the VPS value plan is hosted on. I’m interested to know:
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[li]the hardware you use? ie brand of hardware, type of processor and no of cores and speed, hard disk setup etc.
[/li][li]the VPS contention ratio?
[/li][li]whether the RAM specified is the guaranteed amount or burstable amount?
[/li][li]what backup provision there is? ie RAID, tape backup
[/li][li]what the connectivity is of the hosting facility.
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Thanks very much in advance.
We have moved to using dual core AMD servers instead of quad’s like before, and going with a maximum of 10 VPSes per node. We had intially gone with SWSoft suggestions of 20-30 per node, but even on the most powerful servers with 16GB RAM, quad CPU’s, etc the number of processes really caused a lot of problems and VERY SLOW startup times on maintenance. Since going to a 10max(all value plan) method startup times have literally gone from a minimum of 20 minutes and sometimes 40, down to 5-8 minutes.
The ram is the guaranteed level, if you buy it, it is available 100%, SWSoft doesn’t have bursting ram on windows
Backup, all servers run RAID1 or RAID10, but this is not backups, backups are on a SAN service, you can perform backups from the power panel when you wish.
We run an all gigabit network on the customer facing side (just a few 100mb internal things for critical but non speed critical measures, like reboot units etc)
