Regarding the recent 12 Cores, 16 GB RAM, 50 GB Disk Space for only R299 post.
Guys, when you sign up with "cloud" providers please be vigilant and check what specs they are advertising. There are many sharks out there wanting to prey on you!
* The above poster advertised E5660 hardware with 1600Mhz RAM.
Intels specs (which you can get with a quick Google search) shows the E5660 only supports up to 1333
ref: http://ark.intel.com/products/47921/intel-xeon-processor-x5660-12m-cache-2_80-ghz-6_40-gts-intel-qpi
* The poster then offered 32 cores to trial clients, which sounded odd...
And yes .... the E5660 only supports single and dual configurations, it is not possible to have more than 2 in a machine, definitely not possible to give anyone 32 cores based on this hardware configuration.
ref: http://ark.intel.com/products/47921/intel-xeon-processor-x5660-12m-cache-2_80-ghz-6_40-gts-intel-qpi
* The above poster then claimed that he is actually using 8 x E3-12XX cpu's
Again, Intels specs disagree with this... the maximum number of E3-12XX's you can have configured is 2.
What is more interesting is he claimed 64Gb RAM, the E3-12XX's support up to 32Gb.
ref: http://ark.intel.com/products/series/53495#@All
It is very easy for people to rip you off.
1. Hypervisors like KVM can simulate CPUs and any number of them, regardless of how many physical CPUs are present (or cores)
2. Hypervisors can also lie about how much RAM your are assigned and use files to store RAM contents on large fast backing devices
3. Hypervisors can use memory ballooning so you can overcommit RAM to virtual machines when you don't have it available (this is relatively normal though, many hosts overcommit 10-50%)
4. Too good to be true offers are most of the time too good to be true
Here is a more complete screenshot that I made using KVM on my LAPTOP, which only has 1 CPU and 8Gb RAM!
http://i.imgur.com/3umpWUI.png
Always ask the advertiser what backing hardware they are using, CPU models, motherboards, RAM. Surely if they bought it or rent it, they know EXACTLY what they have
Guys, when you sign up with "cloud" providers please be vigilant and check what specs they are advertising. There are many sharks out there wanting to prey on you!
* The above poster advertised E5660 hardware with 1600Mhz RAM.
Intels specs (which you can get with a quick Google search) shows the E5660 only supports up to 1333
ref: http://ark.intel.com/products/47921/intel-xeon-processor-x5660-12m-cache-2_80-ghz-6_40-gts-intel-qpi
* The poster then offered 32 cores to trial clients, which sounded odd...
And yes .... the E5660 only supports single and dual configurations, it is not possible to have more than 2 in a machine, definitely not possible to give anyone 32 cores based on this hardware configuration.
ref: http://ark.intel.com/products/47921/intel-xeon-processor-x5660-12m-cache-2_80-ghz-6_40-gts-intel-qpi
* The above poster then claimed that he is actually using 8 x E3-12XX cpu's
Again, Intels specs disagree with this... the maximum number of E3-12XX's you can have configured is 2.
What is more interesting is he claimed 64Gb RAM, the E3-12XX's support up to 32Gb.
ref: http://ark.intel.com/products/series/53495#@All
It is very easy for people to rip you off.
1. Hypervisors like KVM can simulate CPUs and any number of them, regardless of how many physical CPUs are present (or cores)
2. Hypervisors can also lie about how much RAM your are assigned and use files to store RAM contents on large fast backing devices
3. Hypervisors can use memory ballooning so you can overcommit RAM to virtual machines when you don't have it available (this is relatively normal though, many hosts overcommit 10-50%)
4. Too good to be true offers are most of the time too good to be true
Here is a more complete screenshot that I made using KVM on my LAPTOP, which only has 1 CPU and 8Gb RAM!
http://i.imgur.com/3umpWUI.png
Always ask the advertiser what backing hardware they are using, CPU models, motherboards, RAM. Surely if they bought it or rent it, they know EXACTLY what they have
