What firmware policy? For what? Support is gone for both HP and Dell when you're buying them years old and second hand. Though I did find a guy at Dell could get me the part number for a HDD pretty easily when I said I was going to buy one from them (huehuehue).
Josh Luthman Office: 937-552-2340 Direct: 937-552-2343 1100 Wayne St Suite 1337 Troy, OH 45373 On Tue, Feb 6, 2018 at 3:13 PM, Faisal Imtiaz <fai...@snappytelecom.net> wrote: > In my opinion, check out the firmware / support polices for HP vs Dell, > before you make a decision on what hardware to purchase. > > :) > > Regards. > > Faisal Imtiaz > Snappy Internet & Telecom > http://www.snappytelecom.net > > Tel: 305 663 5518 x 232 > > Help-desk: (305)663-5518 Option 2 or Email: supp...@snappytelecom.net > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Andreas Wiatowski" <andr...@silowireless.com> > > To: af@afmug.com > > Sent: Tuesday, February 6, 2018 1:08:33 PM > > Subject: Re: [AFMUG] New Server Hardware > > > I just pickup off lease HP's on Ebay, lots of ram processors and disk... > usually > > don't pay more than $500-800 for them. Gen 7 and 8's. Lots of reputable > > sellers. > > > > Also, Checkout PROXMOX. It's a pretty cool virtualization platform with a > > community edition that you hack around to get the latest version. I find > it > > very easy... you can take VMDK files and convert them and spin up a new > > instance of anything easily. > > > > Cheers, > > > > Andreas Wiatowski, CEO > > Silo Wireless Inc. > > 1-866-727-4138 x-600 > > http://www.silowireless.com <http://www.silowireless.com/> > > Wireless | Fibre | VoIP | PBX | IPTV > > > > Silo Wireless is a Proud Member of: > > CanWISP http://www.canwisp.ca > > WISPA http://wispa.org > > Brantford Brant Chamber of Commerce > > Paris Chamber of Commerce > > Cambridge Chamber of Commerce > > > > > > _________________________________ > > The contents of this email message and any attachments are intended > solely for > > the addressee(s) and may contain confidential and/or privileged > information and > > may be legally protected from disclosure. If you are not the intended > recipient > > of this message or their agent, or if this message has been addressed to > you in > > error, please immediately alert the sender by reply email and then > delete this > > message and any attachments. If you are not the intended recipient, you > are > > hereby notified that any use, dissemination, copying, or storage of this > > message or its attachments is strictly prohibited. > > > >On 2018-02-06, 1:02 PM, "Af on behalf of Nate Burke" < > af-boun...@afmug.com on > >behalf of n...@blastcomm.com> wrote: > > > > I'm going to need to bring online a couple new servers (OS Instances) > in > > the next month or 2. They could probably be housed inside a single > > physical machine as VM's. It's been a while since I've had to pickup > > new server hardware. What's a good spec now for a machine to do VM's. > > Are NAS prices cheap enough now that you'd go with external storage, > or > > just have a single physical machine with internal HDD's. Hardware > NAS, > > or another machine running linux and ZFS? With external Storage, does > > it all have to be 10G networking to prevent bottlenecks? About 6 > years > > ago I put in a single standalone server running VMWare, but it's out > of > > resources to add new VM's to it. > > > > It looks like Newegg has lots of Refurb Dell and HP servers (with no > > HDD's) for cheap. DL380G5 ~$100. I'd like to stay in the $2k-$3k > range > > for this project. Or is hosting your own hardware not even worth it > > anymore? Just go get a server from 1and1 for $5/mo setup a VPN back > to > > the network and be done? >
