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I'm looking to upgrade to a better dedicated server at my host LiquidWeb and would like some advice.

I currently have a Pentium 4 3GHZ Hyperthreaded, 2GB RAM, and 2 120GB Hard Drives and have been paying $227/month (I've actually been overpaying, since they have lowered their prices since I first signed up with them, but never pro-rated me..)

My current server is very overloaded. What I really need is more RAM, but apparently I need a processor upgrade to add more ram, so..

They said that I can upgrade to the following setup for $270 a month:

» Processor: Intel i5-750 Quad Core
» RAM: 4GB DDR SDRAM
» HD1: SATA Drive (7,200 rpm) (+250 GB 7200 RPM SATA hard drive)
» HD2: SATA Backup Drive (+250 GB SATA (7,200 rpm))
» GUARD: No Remote Backup Needed
» OS: Windows Server (+Windows 2008 Standard 64-bit) (+No Anti-Virus) (+No MSSQL Software Required.)
» Bandwidth: 6000GB Monthly Transfer (3000 in + 3000 out) (+100M uplink port)
» ControlPanel: cPanel/ Web Host Manager - Fully Managed (+ServerSecure) (+Fantastico)
» SetupFee: No setup fee
» Monthly Fee: $270.00 /mon

Is this a fairly decent server upgrade for the price?

mk1000
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Do you need a dedicated server?

Because there are some really good deals on VPS's around, and personally I dont know if having a physical machine vs virtual would matter. Places like Slice-host linode or gandi.net are great, and really very cheap. I've only used gandi.net, but i've heard good things about the others. Full root access, choice of operating systems etc.

Mark
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  • I definitely need a dedicated server, as I run a fairly high traffic web site with lots of database reads/writes. – mk1000 Sep 28 '10 at 06:50
  • I dont really understand why you need a dedicated server over a bunch of virtual servers. I guess if you are scaling vertically instead of horizontally. But the VPS plans have pretty good SLA's etc on them. And you could easily get quite a few separate virtual images for the amount your paying. – Mark Sep 29 '10 at 02:40
  • And - if you have a ton of database reads and writes, why do you get a crappy low end storage subsystemt hat will be slow? – TomTom Oct 10 '11 at 16:59