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Quickly looking over SoftLayer's price sheet, it looks to be a little over $1k a month for Intel 5670 with 24GB of RAM

I'm not really familiar with CPUs, but I got a hyperthreaded, quad core Xeon with 24 GB RAM, 750 2xRAID1 disks and 10 TB bandwidth from Hetzner for 60 euros a month... Isn't that comparable to what you mention, apart from being many times cheaper?

http://www.hetzner.de/en/hosting/produkte_rootserver/ex5

Not quite. Check this out

http://ark.intel.com/compare/47920,37147

The Softlayer server is a Xeon, the Hetzner is a desktop grade processor.

Key differences for me

* Cache

* QPI (especially in a 2P config that makes a difference)

* Max TDP ... that's a HUGE one.

* ECC memory. See http://perspectives.mvdirona.com/2012/02/26/ObservationsOnEr... for why this is important

So, you're not comparing apples to apples

Ah, yes, sorry, it's an i7, not a Xeon. Still, you could get around 40 of these machines for one of those, so I'd take these.

Hetzner's Xeon offerings with ECC aren't that expensive either: http://www.hetzner.de/hosting/produkte_rootserver/ex6 I would expect Softlayer to be more reliable than Hetzner as a service provider but that being said, the price difference is still huge.

Softlayer is a lot more expensive than most hosts these days. They're closer to being in Rackspace territory now.

You can get a dual E5-2609 with 32gb of ram + bandwidth from a good host like WebNX for $369 / month.

And if you wanted to spend $1k per month, you can get a dual e5-2687W (16 cores @ 3.1ghz) with 128gb ram; with a 4x SAS RAID 10, plus a 120gb ssd drive, plus a 2tb backup freebie, plus 100mbps unmetered bandwidth (30tb). That literally blows the doors off Softlayer.

Literally? Did you literally fall asleep in English class?

Douche much?

Looking over your comments on HN, that latest comment seems to be the peak of your contribution here. In over two years you've picked up 394 karma points. I'm going with the assumption that all of those karma points are from being a pedant about the English language. You're such a valuable member of this community! Rock on.

Figuratively speaking, of course.

Which of your 98 days here qualifies you to assess the peak of someone's contribution over a span of two years?

Look out everybody, this guy's been here for almost 1000 days!

We don't need HN to turn into reddit, and we don't need it to turn into slashdot with its small-uid-envy either.

Hardly worth the hellban he seems to have received in response...

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