I like Dells, but I have HP's because of the excess/price on eBay. You are saying HP doesn't support like Dell?
I can believe that. -----Original Message----- From: Af [mailto:af-boun...@afmug.com] On Behalf Of Faisal Imtiaz Sent: Tuesday, February 6, 2018 1:14 PM To: af@afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] New Server Hardware 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?
