Dear All,
I'm going to convert (continualy) a big amounth of video files with ffmpeg to .mp4, for which I need 5 to 10 servers (perhaps even more). I'm not sure what the best hardware setup is for ffmpeg, but as far as I know ffmpeg eats CPU. So the more CPU power I have the better. (as GPU doesn't work yet that well with ffmpeg/h.264, as far as i know...)
untill so far i found the following cheap CPU servers:
hetzner 4cores/8threads /Turbo 3.9 GHz | 4x3.4 GHz = 13.6 or 4x3.9 GHz = 15.6 GHz Around 45-50 euro
serverforyou 8 Cores, 8x 2.3 GHz = 18.4Ghz Around 55-60 euro
ovh / soyoustart 4cores / 8threads / Turbo 3.8 GHz= 4x3.4 GHz = 13.6 or 4x3.8 GHz = 15.2 GHz Around 55-60 euro
Budget ~500 euro a month:
10 servers Hetzner |500 euro = 15.6*10 = 156Ghz
8 servers Serverforyou |480 euro = 18.4*8 = 147.2Ghz
8 server OVH-Soyoustart|480 euro *(setup costs not included)= 121.6Ghz
*For Hetzer en Serverforyou I have no setup costs *Speed above is with Turbo enabled, not sure yet when Turbo kicks in?
So i don't care about RAM or much HDD space (i think), only CPU and bandwidth (as the video files need to be downloaded, encoded and resend).
So far my choice is hetzner because they allow me higher bandwidth speed (1Gbit) and free income traffic.
Are there any other companies in EU that have cheap CPU like above? The servers will have heavy CPU all the time...