We have three SuperMicro blade servers. One's worked like a champ, and
the other two died. The vendor we used tanked, so no warranty support.
I got two IBM X3400 boxes to replace the SuperMicros; the drives were
OK, so I got empty enclosures plus some rails, stuffed the drives in, and
On Tue, Jun 09, 2009 at 08:43:08AM +0200, Wojciech Puchar typed:
Buy second hand branded hardware from ebay (allegro in poland). It's
usually hardware that was used in offices and replaced by more modern
ones. It's already tested!!!
You could get high-end PIII with 512MB RAM for $30 at
task that even Pentium 100 will do.
I'm hosting websites on 5-10 years old SUN hardware. V100/120 with ultrasparc II
400-650 Mhz. Just put in some new disks and memory, no sweat. They allmost
normal. 400MHz SUNs are available here for 100$ or less. they usually have
quite a lot of RAM even
Hi,
I need to buy some new servers, and mgmt has decreed that we get them from
someplace which will provide service contracts with on-site h/w suppport,
which means HP, Dell, Sun, IBM, etc.
Has anyone bought servers from one of the big manufacturers lately and had
good luck with them? It seems
ericr wrote:
I need to buy some new servers, and mgmt has decreed that we get them from
someplace which will provide service contracts with on-site h/w suppport,
which means HP, Dell, Sun, IBM, etc.
We use Dell almost exclusively. Although Dell doesn't officially support
FreeBSD, Dell hardware
And I say you get what you pay for. My organization uses Dell
exclusively and it's been a thorn in my side from day one. The AC
power requirements (it seems) for Dells are about 3x as much as
Gateways (I know, Gateway doesn't provide servers). The power draw
for the Dells don't seem to be any
On Mon, Jun 08, 2009 at 11:56:35AM -0600, ericr wrote:
Hi,
I need to buy some new servers, and mgmt has decreed that we get them from
someplace which will provide service contracts with on-site h/w suppport,
which means HP, Dell, Sun, IBM, etc.
Our group has a lot of Dells from Poweredge
Hi,
I need to buy some new servers, and mgmt has decreed that we get
them from
someplace which will provide service contracts with on-site h/w
suppport,
which means HP, Dell, Sun, IBM, etc.
I have two Intel servers that I like a lot. I don't have on-site
support, but it might be
On Mon, 8 Jun 2009 11:56:35 -0600,
ericr erobi...@gmail.com said:
E Has anyone bought servers from one of the big manufacturers lately and had
E good luck with them?
I've always had good luck with Dell, especially the GX-260s. I've used
them for file-servers handling over 100 Samba
