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

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  • 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.

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  • imokimok OG
    edited July 20

    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/

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  • 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 July 20

    @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:
---------------------------------
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.

  • arirangarirang
    edited July 20

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

    Sad.

    To be honest, it’s hard to get consistently stable disk performance in a virtualized environment. Even for a small cluster, I’d want to see at least 500 IOPS sustained. If you run a 10-minute test and the IOPS periodically drop or spike, that’s not ideal for an etcd cluster.

    That said, it won’t necessarily cause frequent leader changes. However, if the leader experiences enough instability, a new leader election may be triggered, and you’ll likely start seeing warning messages accumulate in the logs.

    A high 4K score in YABS doesn’t necessarily mean the storage is suitable for etcd. You can still encounter IOPS drops and latency spikes, so it’s better to validate it using the command below or a dedicated etcd benchmarking tool.

    fio --name=etcd_fsync_test \
  --filename=etcd_test_file \
  --rw=write \
  --ioengine=libaio \
  --bs=4k \
  --iodepth=1 \
  --fdatasync=1 \
  --direct=1 \
  --size=5G \
  --runtime=600 \
  --time_based \
  --rate_iops=1000 \
  --group_reporting

    For etcd, the 99th percentile and maximum latency values are much more important than the average.

    I’ve tested quite a few providers, and only a handful consistently met that requirement. That said, even they occasionally have spikes—it’s just the nature of virtualized environments.

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  • imokimok OG

    Not sure if the VPS from ServerPoint is transferable. If anybody knows and wants it, let me know.

    It's not suitable for my use case but it seems good for the price.

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