Lew's got a point. I picked up a used Dell 2650 rackmount with dual Xeon 3.06, 5x72Gig SCSI with an internal RAID card for RAID5, and 6Gig RAM. Less that $200 and its been running flawlessly for almost two years!
Then a friend gave me a used HP DL380 rackmount with dual Xeon 3.06, about 100Gig SCSI RAID5, and 2Gig RAM. BX really SCREAMS on it. And all he asked was I let him host a couple sites on it. What a deal. Used equipment really takes off with BX. While companies are getting rid of slightly older servers (REAL servers) because Winblows is too slow on them - BX really takes advantage of that hardware. You can host hundreds of sites on a dual Xeon server without bogging it down. And you can get servers like that dirt cheap! By the way - I moved to that dual Xeon HP from a P3-900Meg with 384Meg running BQ. Talk about a difference! Chuck ---------- Original Message ----------- From: "Lew Berry" <[email protected]> To: "BlueOnyx General Mailing List" <[email protected]> Sent: Thu, 19 Aug 2010 17:58:06 -0400 Subject: [BlueOnyx:05249] Re: new hardware > BX screams on my once retired Poweredge 2800 > > Lew Berry, MCSE, MCT, CSSA > LCB Consulting Inc. > Systems Engineer > 450-106 State Road 13 N, #205 > St Johns FL, 32259 > [email protected] > (904) 482-1405 > (904) 322-5049 fax > (904) 651-1046 cell > > ****** CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE ****** > NOTICE: This e-mail message and all attachments transmitted with it may > contain legally privileged and confidential information intended solely > for the use of the addressee. If the reader of this message is not the > intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any reading, > dissemination, distribution, copying, or other use of this message or > its attachments is strictly prohibited. If you have received this > message in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete this > message from your system. Thank you. > ************************************************************************ > **** > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] > On Behalf Of Chris Gebhardt - VIRTBIZ Internet > Sent: Thursday, August 19, 2010 2:05 PM > To: BlueOnyx General Mailing List > Subject: [BlueOnyx:05248] Re: new hardware > > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > Blueonyx mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.blueonyx.it/mailman/listinfo/blueonyx ------- End of Original Message -------
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