On Tuesday 14 January 2003 17:58, Mark Fowler wrote: > Jody wrote: > > So, anyone got any advice that could help me make a decision? > > An aside issue: Where's this being hosted? Is it going in an Airconed > room, and will you be able to get half a U gap between this server and the > next one or are you likely to be sandwidtched inbetween two other > potentially hot servers? > > To be honest if you don't need the CPU power (why would you?) I'd prefer > to get something that ran reliably. It's a major pain in the butt going > and sorting out misbehaving co-lo machines.
seconded. Unless you are putting this somewhere really expensive and well airconditioned (eg Telecity) then 1U boxes do not pay off in the (cost of box)V(cost of hosting) trade off. add in the less room for extra drives, more expensive PSU's, more heat etc and its a non-starter. Of course if you *are* putting it in Telecity, then you've probably got enough cash to just buy a Intel 1U boxen and a spare anyway. some places (eg mailbox) don't charge differently for a 1U or a 'desktop' sized machine anyway, so you aren't necessarily gaining anyting. -- Robin Szemeti
