DediDirect $20 Dedicated Server

Just snap the $20 box from DediDirect. Advertised specs:

• Dual L5420
• 8192MB DDRII Memory
• 500GB SATAII HDD
• 1Gbps Port Speed
• 20TB Premium Bandwidth
• 5 IP Address
• Order link: http://www.dedidirect.com/billing/signup.php?package=841 (Source from LET)

They will upgrade the box free of charge upon request but its based on your luck.

RAM and HDD upgrade:

The memory upgrade is a random available, upgrade depending on the convenience for us. You may make a request and see if we can hook you up prior to ordering.

As for the I/O if you're system comes with a 500GB disk it's just a normal SATAII HDD. You can make a request for a system with a 1TB W.D Enterprise RE4 drive which will have better I/O.

How about my box?

A few hours ago I ask them if willing to upgrade the storage to 2x500GB HDD instead of 16GB RAM, and surprisingly they tell me if I will got an awesome upgrade, I got last stock for this config:

• E3-1230
• 16GB DDR3 Memory
• 2 x 1TB RE4 Enterprise Disks
• 20TB Premium BW
• 1Gbps Port
• 5 IP

Actually I want to ask, "with or without power? " but decided to test it later.

And the server deployed a few hours after order. Try login and successful, thanks God its powered... and yes its E3. I feel blessed...

The server deployed as Raid 1.

System Info
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Processor       : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E31230 @ 3.20GHz
CPU Cores       : 8
Frequency       : 1600.000 MHz
Memory          : 15941 MB
Swap            : 8031 MB
Uptime          : 19 min,

OS              : CentOS release 6.7 (Final)
Arch            : x86_64 (64 Bit)
Kernel          : 2.6.32-573.26.1.el6.x86_64
Hostname        : E3-09


Speedtest (IPv4 only)
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Your public IPv4 is xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx

Location                Provider        Speed
CDN                     Cachefly        6.13MB/s

Atlanta, GA, US         Coloat          39.6MB/s
Dallas, TX, US          Softlayer       9.07MB/s
Seattle, WA, US         Softlayer       7.37MB/s
San Jose, CA, US        Softlayer       7.44MB/s
Washington, DC, US      Softlayer       10.5MB/s

Tokyo, Japan            Linode          5.61MB/s
Singapore               Softlayer       5.23MB/s

Rotterdam, Netherlands  id3.net         3.55MB/s
Haarlem, Netherlands    Leaseweb        4.45MB/s


Disk Speed
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I/O (1st run)   : 126 MB/s
I/O (2nd run)   : 126 MB/s
I/O (3rd run)   : 127 MB/s
Average I/O     : 126.333 MB/s

Simple ioping:

ioping -c 10 /
4.0 KiB from / (ext4 /dev/mapper/vg-root): request=1 time=160 us
4.0 KiB from / (ext4 /dev/mapper/vg-root): request=2 time=143 us
4.0 KiB from / (ext4 /dev/mapper/vg-root): request=3 time=168 us
4.0 KiB from / (ext4 /dev/mapper/vg-root): request=4 time=143 us
4.0 KiB from / (ext4 /dev/mapper/vg-root): request=5 time=172 us
4.0 KiB from / (ext4 /dev/mapper/vg-root): request=6 time=144 us
4.0 KiB from / (ext4 /dev/mapper/vg-root): request=7 time=116 us
4.0 KiB from / (ext4 /dev/mapper/vg-root): request=8 time=150 us
4.0 KiB from / (ext4 /dev/mapper/vg-root): request=9 time=170 us
4.0 KiB from / (ext4 /dev/mapper/vg-root): request=10 time=170 us

--- / (ext4 /dev/mapper/vg-root) ioping statistics ---
10 requests completed in 9.0 s, 6.5 k iops, 25.4 MiB/s
min/avg/max/mdev = 116 us / 153 us / 172 us / 16 us

HDDs:

=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Model Family:     Western Digital Caviar Black
Device Model:     WDC WD1002FAEX-00Y9A0
Serial Number:    WD-WCAW31455598
LU WWN Device Id: 5 0014ee 2b04e8f70
Firmware Version: 05.01D05
User Capacity:    1,000,204,886,016 bytes [1.00 TB]

Hopefully they can add Rescue System sooner.