On 22/03/2014 19:50, Florian Pritz wrote:
Disclaimer: I have experience with multiple Hetzner boxes, their support work flow and they have a forum which has a good amount of insider info which I like a lot. Better the devil you know ... The relation with your box provider is very important and I fully understand that's a key choice. You don't choose your server only based on price and technical specs.
Not sure which OVH offers you are talking about. Those you linked are at best 16GiB RAM and and i5 and ofc no ecc ram. I pointed out Kimsufi (OVH) boxes for their low cost because they allow to split services between hosts instead of having all in a big expensive server. Smaller boxes with dedicated CPU and unlimited bandwidth. For example one for forums, one for wiki, etc. Maybe it's an option you didn't consider for pricing reason.
The cpu is weaker (e3-1270v3 vs e3-1240v3), 100Mhz[1] :)
I'm feeling that you (and probably Pierre too) are more confident with Hetzner service. Remember that Online.net has a challenging offer which may interest you if we want diversify or we need a real unlimited bandwidth, which come with higher storage (like backup or ...).
we'd get HW raid (which is probably more trouble than it's worth with a 2 disk system) and the choice between 600gb 10k sas, 120gb ssd or 3tb sata disks. I share your feeling with the HW RAID, but you could request to disabling it and use the raid card as an HBA. What I do on this box.
Cheers, [1] http://ark.intel.com/compare/75055,75056 -- Sébastien "Seblu" Luttringer https://seblu.net | Twitter: @seblu42 GPG: 0x2072D77A