Re: [ilugd] dedicated server - opteron or Core2quad

2009-06-29 Thread rakesh kumar
you can create server on any one of them but i have a personal experience on core2quad and i have tried it on sify broadband. On 6/1/09, abhishek jain abhishek.netj...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I want a dedicated server on Linux on rent, Is AMD Opteron 2x2.4 GHz better or Core2quad, Further can

Re: [ilugd] dedicated server - opteron or Core2quad

2009-06-07 Thread abhishek jain
On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 2:49 PM, Karanbir Singh mail-li...@karan.org wrote: On 06/03/2009 04:12 AM, Alok G. Singh wrote: however for this sort of a workload, the opterons at the same specification level as the Core2 would be a better performing setup. Even the newest Xeons ? I thought

Re: [ilugd] dedicated server - opteron or Core2quad

2009-06-03 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 06/03/2009 04:12 AM, Alok G. Singh wrote: however for this sort of a workload, the opterons at the same specification level as the Core2 would be a better performing setup. Even the newest Xeons ? I thought differently. Would you have any benchmarks to share ? Some of the new i7 kit from

Re: [ilugd] dedicated server - opteron or Core2quad

2009-06-02 Thread Amit Sharma
abhishek jain wrote: I searched and found softlayer.com and limestonenetworks.com which is better. check www.nettigritty.com Apart from almost 100% uptime, their customer support and response time (to queries) is mind boggling. This is based on my 4 years of experience with them as a

Re: [ilugd] dedicated server - opteron or Core2quad

2009-06-02 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 06/01/2009 06:43 AM, abhishek jain wrote: I dont plan to implement virtualization for now, but will plan that for later, i want it to be a mainly database server with heavy mysql queries and then a web server also on it, As Arun already pointed out, both are viable platforms - however for

Re: [ilugd] dedicated server - opteron or Core2quad

2009-06-02 Thread Alok G. Singh
Karanbir Singh wrote: however for this sort of a workload, the opterons at the same specification level as the Core2 would be a better performing setup. Even the newest Xeons ? I thought differently. Would you have any benchmarks to share ? -- Alok

[ilugd] dedicated server - opteron or Core2quad

2009-05-31 Thread abhishek jain
Hi, I want a dedicated server on Linux on rent, Is AMD Opteron 2x2.4 GHz better or Core2quad, Further can anyone quickly suggest me the providers if any in india or a abroad, I mean where to rent from, I searched and found softlayer.com and limestonenetworks.com which is better. -- Thanks and

Re: [ilugd] dedicated server - opteron or Core2quad

2009-05-31 Thread Arun Khan
On Monday 01 Jun 2009, abhishek jain wrote: I want a dedicated server on Linux on rent, Is AMD Opteron 2x2.4 GHz better or Core2quad, Opteron is a server class CPU whereas Core 2 Quad is a desktop class CPU; Xeon CPUs from Intel are server class. Both platforms are equally good. You have

Re: [ilugd] dedicated server - opteron or Core2quad

2009-05-31 Thread abhishek jain
On Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 7:27 AM, Arun Khan kn...@yahoo.com wrote: On Monday 01 Jun 2009, abhishek jain wrote: I want a dedicated server on Linux on rent, Is AMD Opteron 2x2.4 GHz better or Core2quad, Opteron is a server class CPU whereas Core 2 Quad is a desktop class CPU; Xeon CPUs from