Thread: Suggest For Good Dedicated Server?

Hi, I'm newbie in using dedicated server. Can anyone suggest me a good website to buy France Dedicated Server except kimsufi or online.net. The server could locate anywhere else (Netherland, Germany,etc...) but it needs to be good deal (the price fluctuates around 100-120 euro/month). The requirement is Quadcore server. Hard Drive needs to be at least 2-4TB, 1Gbps connection, 16GB Ram. The server needs to install window server OS. Any help would be appreciated. Thank you everyone.



P/s: I try online.net once but they are out of stock for the one I was looking for.

The obvious candicates are OVH, SoftLayer and Leasweb.

Do you want to order directly or with a reseller?
It's hard to find exactly what you wanted, but I still have some suggestions.

OVH:
Best of: Professional EG Best Of dedicated server - OVH 4x2(HT)x2.66+ GHz 24GB RAM 1Gbps connection link and 20TB of internal uplink bandwidth
AMD: EG AMD Dedicated server - OVH 6x 2.30+ GHz 32GB RAM 1 Gbps connection link and 20TB of internal uplink bandwidth

Note that the French OVH servers are throttled at 200Mbps uplink and the co.uk ones have 20TB internal uplink bandwidth

Leaseweb and Softlayer are well above your price range or don't fit your requirements, even though the latter one would have the best network.

My bad.
Our dedicated server starts from 34.99euro with unmetered bandwidth (32TB up and down) no limits/caps(German datacentre)

https://www.chociz.com/whmcs/cart.php?gid=5

@ Magister: Thank you for your suggestion but the price is actually above my price. If I add window server to the cart & tax add in about 20%, it adds up £183.59. Well I can't afford for that. Do you know any reseller of OVH or Leaseweb or Softlayer? The hard drive can be around 1TB, QC Xeon, 100Mbps Connection, Ram can be 8GB.

Originally Posted by losangeles20

@ Magister: Thank you for your suggestion but the price is actually above my price. If I add window server to the cart & tax add in about 20%, it adds up £183.59. Well I can't afford for that. Do you know any reseller of OVH or Leaseweb or Softlayer? The hard drive can be around 1TB, QC Xeon, 100Mbps Connection, Ram can be 8GB.

How did you manage that?

If I add the EG AMD 2011 to my cart, on the next screen I choose NO extra, then I choose the OS (any Linux) and at the end it gives me a total of 395 quid but that is for 3 (!!) months since that is the minimum term @ OVH... When I go with Euro's, it will give me a grand total of 392 Euro. These numbers are ALL including VAT and for 3 months...

/edit: sorry, with Windows 2008 R2 Server Standard Edition 64 bits (which supports the 32GB RAM), it only comes to 467 quid for 3 months or about 155 quid a month... But I am quite unsure why you need Windows; care to elaborate? And if you got a valid Server 2008 license (SPLA), you can use that as well and take delivery of an empty without the "required OVH license" and install your own license. Else get a KimSufi... Highest specs is QuadCore i7, 24GB RAM, 2TB HDD, 100Mbps connection and 15TB bandwidth... With Windows Server 2008 Standard x64, 3 month contract: 266 quid incl VAT. Extra TB costs about 1 quid.

Things I don't fully understand: why you need Windows and why you need a Xeon?

Just a note, 3 months isn't the minimum term with ovh/kimsufi its just the default, it can be changed when you're ordering. Anyway, losangeles20, if you're completely against the kimsufi and are willing to get 100mbit, then you should check out the ovh superplan bestof. It seems to meet your requirements and should be within your budget. If you want that hardware and space for gbit you will have to spend more I believe. As for resellers there are a couple I know and you can pm me if you need more details, but its unlikely anyone can do better than the direct cost from OVH.

@DutchRuff: Thank for your suggestion mate. I mainly use server for encoding videos and most encoding software only supported window (megui, xvid4psp, virtualdub, etc...) Secondly, I haven't experienced with linux before so I rather used window server with license than Linux with open source (I know that linux also has its advantages over window). I would prefer any quadcore server for encoding video purpose, Xeon is just one of my example (it can be i5/i7 or any AMD QC server). I hope this may explain why I need requirements above.
@ drauka: Can you pm me information about those resellers that you know of? Thank you.

Fair play... There are excellent encoders that work under Linux Desktop as well like Handbrake, AviDemux and Mencoder. Staff I work with uses HandBrake even to convert our 1080i caps to distributable format like MP4, all done on a basic Linux server.

But yeh, if you have 0 experience, it might be rough to get started on.