You can purchase a 24 core xeon box for 250-300 ish on ebay.  RAM is king 
though.  

With products like Proxmox, its hard to identify what one is better.  I would 
state that as long as you have data backups then get smaller boxes with huge 
CPU and RAM, where your data comes from don't matter as long as it has 
redundancy.  


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Link Technologies, Inc -- Mikrotik & WISP Support Services 
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From: AF <af-boun...@af.afmug.com> On Behalf Of Adam Moffett
Sent: Monday, November 26, 2018 10:01 AM
To: af@af.afmug.com
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Server Hardware



On 11/26/2018 10:55 AM, Adam Moffett wrote:
> It's been a few years since I last went on this journey.
>
> (1) Will I get better prices on Dell from a VAR than I see on the Dell 
> website?
>
> (2) I've heard Supermicro touted as a value brand, but when I spec 
> similar Supermicro and Dell systems Dell comes out cheaper.  Am I 
> missing something?
>
> (3) Do you prefer a whole lot of cheap systems, or a small number of 
> really nice ones?  I have reasons to like the latter, but I'm ready to 
> be swayed.

If you're wondering, the Intel Atom C3850 is what has me reconsidering on item 
3. You can get 12 cores in a sub $1,000 box.

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