John H. Robinson, IV wrote:
> Neil Schneider wrote:
>>
>> I'm interested in hearing more discussion about this.
>
> Personally, I like the idea of our club maintaining our own server. It
> gives us a flexibility in doing what we want to do, experimental or
> community-wise.
>
> The Xen and Xen-type hosting services are nice, as you get your own
> root, but it can get expensive per month for the level of service
> (bandwidth, storage and CPU) that we currently enjoy.
>
> I agree that a 1U would be fine, with a couple 150G drives. We can
> even
> RAID-1 them, for redundancy and still have copious amounts of space.
>
> I know a local vendor that we can get a 1U with 2x150GB SATA drives,
> SATA RAID controller, 2x XEON 2.8 (or is it 3.0?) GHz, with rails and
> 400 W power suppy for about 3,200$.
>
> More complete details available if desired.
I'm scsi prejudiced, otherwise I like the specs. The price, however,
seems about $1200 more than I would be willing to spend, for a club
server.
My $.03 worth (inflation)
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