Where do you buy your cases, motherboards and such?
You don't have to build your own, there no's advantage. OK for hobbyists. You have to select multiple components, place multiple orders, pay multiple shipping charges, pay multiple invoices, track multiple component warranties, etc.
Lots of on-line PC products sellers have a wide rage of rackmount servers. eg, tigerdirect has their "vision" line of rackmount servers. I'm not recommending them, only an example. Then their is the whole industry of, usually Taiwan-linked, importers/integrators that will build whatever you want. It's a all generic stuff, so no need for maintenance contract. I haven't used or recommended name brand stuff for many years. I had my own horror story with a leased Dell and 4-hour/3-year maintenance contracts that resulted in Dell phone jockeys telling the hosting service monkey to remove a disk that broke/destroyed the RAID5. Never again.
Do you try to keep a standard config as hardware goes of do you keep extras on hand?
Hardware is so cheap, and messing with individual components is so expensive, that full box backup, using the same box for many specific roles, is the best way to go. cookie-cutter boxes
Len
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