Shared Hosting server specs

[ste_]

I was wondering what the server specs are on the ( typhoon ) server. As this is the one im on.

regards

Ste

[DPS Computing]

The general specs of the types of servers used for each plan are available on the main eUKhost website hosting as far as I know (www.eukhost.com).

I know that the specs of the dedicated servers are shown there.

Hope that helps .

[ste_]

ive not come across any for the shared hosting servers yet... maybe im missing somthing here :P

would be just easy all round for an admin to show me the specs coz im real lazy

[eUKhost.com]

Typhoon has got Quad Core Xeon CPU with 4 GB RAM, 8 MB Cache & RAID1

[ste_]

thankz mate... btw what pc spec do you yourself have ? just outta intrest

[eUKhost.com]

Dual Core Xeon 3040, 2 MB cache, 2 GB RAM & 160 GB SATA.

[ste_]

are you into any kind of gaming at all ?

[eUKhost.com]

Originally Posted by ste_

are you into any kind of gaming at all ?

Nope. I've had previous experience with Mario and nothing else

[jazzy639]

Are you able to tell me the specs of Raptor?

Thanks!

[eUKhost.com]

Originally Posted by jazzy639

Are you able to tell me the specs of Raptor?

Thanks!

Raptor has got Quad Core Xeon CPU with 4 GB RAM, 8 MB Cache & no RAID. RAID 0 or RAID 1 makes no difference on Windows so our windows servers are completely dependent on the daily as well as weekly backups and quality of hardware.

[jazzy639]

Very surprised at no RAID! Mirroring should be used for redundancy, a HDD failure will be the end of the website hostings....

[eUKhost.com]

Originally Posted by jazzy639

Very surprised at no RAID! Mirroring should be used for redundancy, a HDD failure will be the end of the website hostings....

RAID0 and RAID 1 makes no difference on windows. Failure of one drive is failure of other drive as well so RAID is not an option for windows. We use branded Dell Hardware for our servers and so far only one of our VPS Hosting nodes had drive failure but that was due to more number of VPS Hosting's setup on it and incase of VPS Hosting nodes read / write process is not stable as some sectors of drive go through heavy usage while others remain normal and this action results in failure on VPS Hosting nodes.

Other shared / Reseller Linux / Windows server have nothing to worry for at least 3 years.

[jazzy639]

I would like to direct you to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAID#Hardware_RAID

A hardware RAID controller should be used in a server, OS doesnt matter. Failure of one drive means the other takes over, im talking about mirroring, not stripping.

RAID 1: Mirrored Set (2 disks minimum) without parity: provides fault tolerance from disk errors and single disk failure. Increased read performance occurs when using a multi-threaded operating system that supports split seeks, very small performance reduction when writing. Array continues to operate so long as at least one drive is functioning.

And I do apologise if anything i have said is wrong, i was under the impression that RAID can be controlled separate from the OS, at least I know my RAID controller is independant

[eUKhost.com]

You should experiment RAID 1 on your local machine. make a mirror of your existing drive on other drive and then replace drives to make the mirrored one as your main drive. let me know the results.

[eUK-Martin]

yes.. RAID Controller is independent to OS but only when we talk about RAID 5 and RAID 10. There are few RAID controllers that support RAID 0 and RAID 1 on windows but then they are highly expensive.

[DPS Computing]

As the regular backups are taken as well I am sure you have got nothing to worry about.

There hasn't been any failure of any of the servers that have hosted my website hostings in the past 8 months that I have been with eUKhost!