Decent dedicated server host that offers EPYC servers?

Cromulent · 4 Aug 2019 at 20:06

I'm on the hunt for a couple of dedicated servers that run on the EPYC platform and was wondering if anyone could recommend a company that offers this service? Ideally, they would be based in UK datacentres.

Cromulent · 5 Aug 2019 at 03:57

Failing that can anyone recommend decent dedicated server hosts in the UK using any kind of hardware?

Cromulent · 5 Aug 2019 at 08:07

Rroff said:
Not necessarily the best option for traditional dedicated servers but Amazon AWS uses Epyc for their new setups.

I used to use rapidswitch.com quite a bit in the past - don't think they do any Epyc provisioning and I kind of went off them, though didn't have a problem with the service from them, when they sold off a bunch of customers to a 3rd party who weren't very good.

Thank you for your reply. I can't use Amazon AWS unfortunately as I want to start my own VPS company so I really need bare-metal servers. I don't mind if the company doesn't offer AMD EPYC but I just want a reliable dedicated server host based in the UK.

Cromulent · 5 Aug 2019 at 11:42

Avalon said:
What’s your budget/connectivity/support requirement? Can you give us any other information on what spec/hardware you want/need? Depending on budget/needs you may even find it more useful to rent your own space and put your own hardware in it if you have a suitable DC locally - sadly that varies massively in cost/connectivity depending on where in the UK you are and if it’s only a few U then you’re likely stuck with a reseller rather which can make things more difficult.

My budget is between £200 and £300 per server. My main requirement is a lot of CPU cores and RAM with NVMe SSDs in hardware RAID 1 or RAID 10. I want to pack the virtual machines as densely as I can.

I live in Surrey so there are a lot of big datacentres near me but I wanted to try out the business idea first before I went ahead and bought some servers outright. I'm not sure if people are going to be interested in my idea so I'd rather rent for 3 months or so to see how it goes.

Edit: 10Gbe ethernet would be good as well.

Cromulent · 12 Aug 2019 at 02:05

Sorry to bump an old thread but I'm still on the lookout for a decent UK dedicated server host. I've lowered my expectations about what I can get in the £200 to £300 price range, but I do need something reasonably soon. Any help is appreciated. It also doesn't need to be AMD EPYC.

Cromulent · 12 Aug 2019 at 14:17

Avalon said:
If you want to test, OVH will do you a dual Xeon 5118 with 96GB and dual 500GB NVMe for £256.99+VAT in the UK on a gigabit connection, no set-up and rolling contract. A reseller should be able to get you better contract pricing and throw in premium bandwidth etc.

OVH seems to be recommended where ever I look so I guess I'm going to go with them then. I'll probably need two or three servers to start with.