I not too long ago determined to buy my very own {hardware} to save lots of on the ever rising month-to-month hosting bills I had. I figured if I owned my very own {hardware} then the price of colocation wouldn’t solely be cheaper in the long term however value will increase would even be minimal as power prices rise.
I used to be eyeing a Twin 2680 v2 (10 cores, 20 whole) from eBay for $280 shipped. Featured 128gb ram and 2x 1tb drives in a Dell R620 chassis. I messaged Interconnecx and inquired what I would want earlier than I place the order. Their staff shortly responded and acknowledged rails had been crucial facet and gave me choices to borrow rails for a one time $50 cost or I might purchase them sperate and have them shipped together with the server to their information heart.
I purchased every thing and despatched monitoring numbers and as quickly because the final package deal was delivered they setup the server identical day.
Being a complete noob to proudly owning my very own {hardware} I anticipated I might run into velocity bumps and pay for admin time. Earlier to this I used OVH machines and their panel to carry out all mandatory duties. Interconnecx has been past useful in serving to level me in the fitting course. They pointed me within the course of buying an iDRAC license and bought it setup so I might management my server from their community securely. My server was even having points turning off randomly and so they carried out some primary troubleshooting in an try to find the difficulty (Hasn’t occurred since OS reinstall). All of this was offered to me freed from cost. I even requested what it could value for them to place new onerous drives in ought to I get them organized and so they acknowledged so long as I ordered the caddie to associate with it they would not cost me to throw them in.
With reference to efficiency I haven’t got any points. For $50/m I am getting unmetered 1gbps in Kansas Metropolis and my ip block is clear from blacklists. Tremendous proud of the customer support they’ve offered.
