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" <[email protected] on behalf of [email protected]> 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?
