Where do you buy your cases, motherboards and such? Do you try to keep a standard config as hardware goes of do you keep extras on hand?
I have played with the idea of building our own servers but go back and forth on that one.. -----Original Message----- From: Mark [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 15, 2005 10:24 PM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] OT: hardware company That's why I build my own servers. Haven't had one fail in the 5 years I've had the service up and running. I have retired a couple to become game servers and they're still ticking away. At 09:45 PM 2/15/2005, you wrote: >re: redundant power supplies. > >I never understood why a manufacturer would have an option to use a single >power cord to connect to a power supply with two redundant power supplies in >the same server. if someone trips over the single cord, as in the example >below, then both supplies go down. > >why not have all servers with dual power supplies connected to seperate UPS >units so that if either the power supply fails, the UPS fails or the circuit >to which the UPS is connected fails, the redundant power supply can take >over. > >i know, many people would consider that kind of redundancy redundant, but we >do not, too many strange thing have happened. i'd rather spend the money on >prevention than waste a day "fixing" something that could have been >prevented while 50 angry office workers and untold numbers of customers are >screaming at me on the telephone and thru the doorway about the fact they >can't get the pictures that their grandkids sent them via e-mail. > >Bruce Barnes > >-----Original Message----- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Doug Traylor >Sent: Tuesday, February 15, 2005 21:24 >To: [email protected] >Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] OT: hardware company > > >Dell. We have a sales rep, not that it's a big deal. I got a 10% >discount last time I bought some little thing. > >The big deal is their service. It's nice to get a new hard drive air >mailed in four hours or less when one decides to die. > >..And their dependability...we have been using the same 150 Dell >computers, more or less(desktops and servers), for four years with few >failures of anything but ~10 cpu fans becoming squeaky and ~5 power >supply fans. A couple of scsi drives in one of our raid systems have >been replaced without incident or noticeable downtime, and that's it. >Not counting the usual programmer/sysadmin induced system meltdowns! >:o) Like the guy who was walking behind the servers and tripped on >and pulled out one power cord from a raid with supposedly redundant >dual power, that corrupted the container and caused us a day of >downtime and lost work. Good times, good times. > >:o) > >Doug Traylor > >On Tue, 15 Feb 2005 15:03:23 -0500, Matrosity Tech Support ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > yes, don't screw around pinching pennies with your revenue, get a dell. > > > > > > Internet Relations wrote: > > I'd 2nd that. > >Dell. > >To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html >List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ >Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/ > > >To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html >List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ >Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/ >--- >[This E-mail scanned for viruses courtesy of Netslyder, >Inc.(http://www.netslyder.net)] --- [This E-mail scanned for viruses courtesy of Netslyder, Inc.(http://www.netslyder.net)] To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/ --- [This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude Virus] To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/
