I would only host elsewhere what must be hosted elsewhere. Everything else in-house.
----- Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions Midwest Internet Exchange The Brothers WISP ----- Original Message ----- From: "Nate Burke" <n...@blastcomm.com> To: "Animal Farm" <af@afmug.com> Sent: Tuesday, February 6, 2018 12:02:41 PM Subject: [AFMUG] New Server Hardware 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?
