Looking for 3 servers in Dallas

imokimok OG
edited July 18 in Requests

Hi!
I'm looking for 3 (or 4) servers in Dallas, US.

For each one:

  • Different node.
  • RAM 4gb
  • CPU: 2+ cores. Something more powerful than an E5v4.
  • Storage: 80gb - 100gb SSD or NVMe.
  • Network: 1gbps minimun
  • Private network would be nice.
  • $5/m per server is fine?

I'm trying to build a database cluster because I like to suffer.

My compute resources are in Dallas so I can't use another location. Unless I move my dedicated servers... but where? and it would more expensive these days... can we kill AI?

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  • rpqurpqu

    Consider @DartNode @georgedatacenter @crunchbits

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  • skorousskorous OGSenpai

    What sort of db cluster you setting up that won't fit on your existing dedis?

  • qpsqps Hosting ProviderOG

    @imok Why did you choose Dallas to begin with? Where are you located?

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  • imokimok OG

    @skorous said:
    What sort of db cluster you setting up that won't fit on your existing dedis?

    I don't want everything to die at the same time. And I only have 2 dedis in Dallas. I want to use this db cluster for all my apps.

    @qps said:
    @imok Why did you choose Dallas to begin with? Where are you located?

    In Peru. Lowest latency after Miami.

    Dallas was the cheapest like five years ago, I got a few good deals for the hardware and it's still there. Lots of storage, RAM and not-so-ancient CPUs, but they are almost full and I'm just waiting for the drives to fail. After that, I will be moving my stuff to another city, maybe.

  • imokimok OG
    edited July 18

    @imok said: Lowest latency after Miami.

    Ok it looks like Virginia is the 2nd lowest now. Something changed, ping increased.

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  • olokeoloke Hosting Provider

    Try asking @serverpoint for some custom deal.
    They offer VPS servers with private network in Dallas, USA.

    https://www.serverpoint.com/en/vps-hosting/

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    @MikeA might be out of your budget unless he does a special

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  • MikeAMikeA Hosting ProviderOG
    edited July 18

    @teamacc said:
    @MikeA might be out of your budget unless he does a special

    I'm out of stock in Dallas practically, and I can't do very cheap deals now with memory prices, since I only build new hardware. Either way I don't do private networking unfortunately. Thanks though.

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  • AK_KWHAK_KWH Hosting ProviderOG

    @imok said:
    Hi!
    I'm looking for 3 (or 4) servers in Dallas, US.

    For each one:

    • Different node.
    • RAM 4gb
    • CPU: 2+ cores. Something more powerful than an E5v4.
    • Storage: 80gb - 100gb SSD or NVMe.
    • Network: 1gbps minimun
    • Private network would be nice.
    • $5/m per server is fine?

    I'm trying to build a database cluster because I like to suffer.

    My compute resources are in Dallas so I can't use another location. Unless I move my dedicated servers... but where? and it would more expensive these days... can we kill AI?

    we have In Houston Texas 10Gbps with Gold 6152
    we can do 8$ a month
    4GB RAM
    80GB SSD
    2TB@10Gbps

    KhanWebHost Cheap Shared Hosting | Cheap KVM VPS (DE,UK,US,FR) | KVM Sale - LES Offers

  • caasifycaasify Hosting Provider
    edited July 19

    We provider Dallas cloud VPS on caasify, but our pricing is higher than your request. You can opt for a yearly payment to get a discount.

  • imokimok OG
    edited 5:03AM

    Thank you all!

    Got a server from @serverpoint, not the fastest but cheap enough :D I'll test it tomorrow and see if I would get the additional 3.

    Intel Xeon E5 v4
    4 vCPUs at 2.1 GHz
    8 GB RAM
    100 GB fast storage
    10 TB of data transfer per month
    1 IPv4 address
    1 Gbps network port

    BTW, I'm going to try PIGSTY https://pigsty.io/

  • arirangarirang

    @imok said:
    Thank you all!

    Got a server from @serverpoint, not the fastest but cheap enough :D I'll test it tomorrow and see if I would get the additional 3.

    Intel Xeon E5 v4
    4 vCPUs at 2.1 GHz
    8 GB RAM
    100 GB fast storage
    10 TB of data transfer per month
    1 IPv4 address
    1 Gbps network port

    BTW, I'm going to try PIGSTY https://pigsty.io/

    I’m afraid their disk speed isn’t enough for an etcd cluster. I use Patroni with etcd myself.

  • imokimok OG
    edited 5:19PM

    @arirang said:

    @imok said:
    Thank you all!

    Got a server from @serverpoint, not the fastest but cheap enough :D I'll test it tomorrow and see if I would get the additional 3.

    Intel Xeon E5 v4
    4 vCPUs at 2.1 GHz
    8 GB RAM
    100 GB fast storage
    10 TB of data transfer per month
    1 IPv4 address
    1 Gbps network port

    BTW, I'm going to try PIGSTY https://pigsty.io/

    I’m afraid their disk speed isn’t enough for an etcd cluster. I use Patroni with etcd myself.

    Sad. I'm not an expert with that. What speed should I be looking for?

    YABS from the new server:

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Mon Jul 20 12:05:03 CDT 2026

Basic System Information:
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Uptime     : 0 days, 12 hours, 18 minutes
Processor  : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2699A v4 @ 2.40GHz
CPU cores  : 4 @ 2399.988 MHz
AES-NI     : ✔ Enabled
VM-x/AMD-V : ✔ Enabled
RAM        : 7.8 GiB
Swap       : 128.0 MiB
Disk       : 98.1 GiB
Distro     : Debian GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm)
Kernel     : 6.1.0-27-amd64
VM Type    : MICROSOFT
IPv4/IPv6  : ✔ Online / ❌ Offline

IPv4 Network Information:
---------------------------------
ISP        : ServerPoint.com
ASN        : AS26277 ServerPoint.com
Host       : Dallas TX Datacenter
Location   : Dallas, Texas (TX)
Country    : United States

fio Disk Speed Tests (Mixed R/W 50/50) (Partition /dev/vda1):
---------------------------------
Block Size | 4k            (IOPS) | 64k           (IOPS)
  ------   | ---            ----  | ----           ---- 
Read       | 74.17 MB/s   (18.1k) | 425.72 MB/s   (6.4k)
Write      | 74.36 MB/s   (18.1k) | 427.97 MB/s   (6.5k)
Total      | 148.53 MB/s  (36.2k) | 853.69 MB/s  (13.0k)
           |                      |                     
Block Size | 512k          (IOPS) | 1m            (IOPS)
  ------   | ---            ----  | ----           ---- 
Read       | 518.31 MB/s    (988) | 500.91 MB/s    (477)
Write      | 545.85 MB/s   (1.0k) | 534.27 MB/s    (509)
Total      | 1.06 GB/s     (2.0k) | 1.03 GB/s      (986)

iperf3 Network Speed Tests (IPv4):
---------------------------------
Provider        | Location (Link)           | Send Speed      | Recv Speed      | Ping           
-----           | -----                     | ----            | ----            | ----           
Clouvider       | London, UK (10G)          | 746 Mbits/sec   | 650 Mbits/sec   | 102 ms         
Eranium         | Amsterdam, NL (100G)      | 905 Mbits/sec   | 2.59 Gbits/sec  | 106 ms         
Uztelecom       | Tashkent, UZ (10G)        | busy            | 2.67 Gbits/sec  | 198 ms         
Leaseweb        | Singapore, SG (10G)       | 770 Mbits/sec   | 3.83 Gbits/sec  | 235 ms         
Clouvider       | Los Angeles, CA, US (10G) | busy            | 4.30 Gbits/sec  | 37.8 ms        
Leaseweb        | NYC, NY, US (10G)         | 979 Mbits/sec   | 5.31 Gbits/sec  | 38.3 ms        
Edgoo           | Sao Paulo, BR (1G)        | 872 Mbits/sec   | 945 Mbits/sec   | 135 ms         

Geekbench 6 Benchmark Test:
---------------------------------
Test            | Value                         
                |                               
Single Core     |                               
Multi Core      |                               
Full Test       | https://browser.geekbench.com/v6/cpu/18769019

YABS completed in 13 min 52 sec
  • imokimok OG

    It seems @arirang is correct. Disk speed is not enough, maybe because it's Ceph.

    /usr/lib/postgresql/15/bin/pg_test_fsync -f /tmp/test_wal -s 3
3 seconds per test
O_DIRECT supported on this platform for open_datasync and open_sync.

Compare file sync methods using one 8kB write:
(in wal_sync_method preference order, except fdatasync is Linux's default)
        open_datasync                       246.266 ops/sec    4061 usecs/op
        fdatasync                           240.257 ops/sec    4162 usecs/op
        fsync                                86.970 ops/sec   11498 usecs/op
        fsync_writethrough                              n/a
        open_sync                           114.273 ops/sec    8751 usecs/op

Compare file sync methods using two 8kB writes:
(in wal_sync_method preference order, except fdatasync is Linux's default)
        open_datasync                       169.889 ops/sec    5886 usecs/op
        fdatasync                           350.292 ops/sec    2855 usecs/op
        fsync                               119.886 ops/sec    8341 usecs/op
        fsync_writethrough                              n/a
        open_sync                            58.619 ops/sec   17059 usecs/op

Compare open_sync with different write sizes:
(This is designed to compare the cost of writing 16kB in different write
open_sync sizes.)
         1 * 16kB open_sync write           117.486 ops/sec    8512 usecs/op
         2 *  8kB open_sync writes           53.329 ops/sec   18751 usecs/op
         4 *  4kB open_sync writes           28.866 ops/sec   34643 usecs/op
         8 *  2kB open_sync writes           15.047 ops/sec   66458 usecs/op
        16 *  1kB open_sync writes            7.296 ops/sec  137070 usecs/op

Test if fsync on non-write file descriptor is honored:
(If the times are similar, fsync() can sync data written on a different
descriptor.)
        write, fsync, close                 113.405 ops/sec    8818 usecs/op
        write, close, fsync                 118.875 ops/sec    8412 usecs/op

Non-sync'ed 8kB writes:
        write                            723766.195 ops/sec       1 usecs/op

    Sad.

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