My current BX box is running on and old p4 with 256 meg of ram! I
would put more memory in it but I can get any more in the box.
Worked great till about two weeks ago when I think I just have too
many sites on it.
The whole intent of this machine was to take some load off my 550 to
buy me some time till I replace the 550.
GREAT OS, GREAT SUPPORT (this forum)! Long live BX!!
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
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Sent: Thu, 19 Aug 2010 17:58:06 -0400
Subject: [BlueOnyx:05249] Re: new hardware
> BX screams on my once retired Poweredge 2800
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> -----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>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
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