Gerald Waugh wrote: > On Thu, 2010-08-19 at 12:18 -0500, webmaster (Tim Gavigan) wrote: >> All, >> >> I need to buy a server to replace my aging 550 and my newer BX box >> (BX box is an old p3 with 512 meg of memory. Put it together to test >> it out, then put it into production, but now it's at it's max) >> >> Any suggestions from "the masters" on what machine buy? >> >> Note: My server guru of old recommended the 550 back in the day but >> they went EOL 3 months after I bought it. I don't want to go thru that >> again. >> > FWIW, servers go obsolete quickly, so don't expect to purchase a server > that will be in stock for years :(
Gerald is correct. Or, put in the words of Weird Al: "My new computer's got the clocks, it rocks But it was obsolete before I opened the box You say you've had your desktop for over a week? Throw that junk away, man, it's an antique Your laptop is a month old? Well that's great If you could use a nice, heavy paperweight" (or watch here, if you're inclined: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpMvS1Q1sos ) Dell & HP make some fine equipment, as Kristian has mentioned. However, we also have quite a bit of equipment from the likes of Supermicro, Tyan and Rackable Systems. In my experience, the equipment you get is only as good as the vendor you buy it from. We have had nothing but great success with equipment we have sourced from raqware.com, and we also have a local vendor that we buy pre-owned equipment from. Last year's model may not make the biggest rocket of an ESXi server, but for BlueOnyx web hosting, they're more than adequate. -- Chris Gebhardt VIRTBIZ Internet Services Access, Web Hosting, Colocation, Dedicated www.virtbiz.com | toll-free (866) 4 VIRTBIZ _______________________________________________ Blueonyx mailing list [email protected] http://www.blueonyx.it/mailman/listinfo/blueonyx
