It is time to replace my old boy – Fujitsu rx300 s6.
It worked for 3 years in my basement, with regular loss of electricity, a lot of dust and no air conditioner – what a champ. Unfortunately, there is no place for my noisy fella anymore. I was thinking of placing it in some data center, but the prices are too high – 300 euros per month for a server with 2 power supplies ~ 2000W and one public IPv4 (100mbps). It was used only for personal, small projects and testing purposes. So I need something cheap to rent, with:
- 2 x 240 GB SSDs for RAID1
- 12 CPU threads
- 32 GB of RAM
- Gigabit internet connection
- Data Center must be in Europe
A colleague recommended it to me OneProvider.com. Their prices seem low, so let’s find out. In the end, it is not a production server, what possibly can go wrong?
I bought this:
Dedicated Server (08/09/2023 – 08/10/2023) 26.99€
Location: Paris – FR
CPU: Intel Xeon D-1531 – 2.2 GHz – 6 core(s)
RAM: 32GB – DDR4
HDD: 2x 256GB (SSD SATA)
IP: 1
Bandwidth: Unmetered @ 1Gbps
The server was set up in 3 business days. I ordered on Friday and on Tuesday late night it was up and running, no OS installed. I need the last version of Proxmox -> 8. To my surprise, it is not on the list with available choices, even Debian 12 is missing.
It is, what it is, I chose Proxmox v.7, let’s see what will I get… 2 hours later, no OS, it is time to ask the support, wtf is happening?
They installed Proxmox 7 in RAID 1 with mdadm. I need the power of ZFS, and v.8 – do not want to upgrade manually. v.7 EOL soon.
New support ticket for IPMI was submitted. The access was provided in 30 min. They do not allow changing anything in the BIOS, even the boot order (from legacy BIOS to UEFI). If you do it and break something, the punishment is 50 euros.
This IPMI was painfully slow. Аt first I thought that the installation hung on. It took me 6 hours for something that takes 20 min, however, it was successful.
Conclusion: I have a working virtual environment for only 26.99€ per month, with no installation fee. It took time and effort to install what I wanted. The support tickets are answered in 2-3 hours.
