I have a bunch of those crapbox 1ru servers from geeks.com... Most of the ones I had were rackable boxes, but they all work fine..
$100 for 1ru is hard to beat.. I think most of mine are dual opteron w/ 4g of ram and some drive which I swap out.. On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 12:56 PM, Mark J. Bailey <[email protected]> wrote: > That does look interesting Bruce. What customer experience has anyone had > with the folk at geeks.com? reliable source? > > > > ________________________________________________________ > > Mark J. Bailey Jobsoft Design & Development, Inc. > > 104 Arlington Place, Suite 100 Franklin, TN 37064 > > EMAIL: [email protected] WEB: http://www.jobsoft.com/ > > VOICE:(615)904-9559 FAX:(615)904-9576 CELL:(615)308-9099 > > > > *From:* [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] *On > Behalf Of *Bruce W. Martin > *Sent:* Sunday, January 16, 2011 12:35 PM > *To:* [email protected] > *Subject:* Re: [nlug] Server Suggestion > > > > > > On Jan 15, 2011, at 2:46 PM, Steven S. Critchfield wrote: > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > I'm looking to standup a simple server and want server hardware rather > > than just a white box. Performance is not really an issue but > > reliability and > > price are. Any suggestions? I can get a Dell T110 for under $500.00. I > > looked at HP but they are more expensive for a lesser spec machine. > > > Andy, you leave a lot open in your description of need. Here are some > things to consider. Do you need virtualization, and what are the > requirements of the kind of virt you want to do. > > If you want to go on a budget, I saw these recently, and it piqued my > interest, but I haven't researched it much more yet. > > Supermicro 2 Xeon 2.8ghz, 2gb ram, 2 80gb IDE drives plus cdrom in a 1u. > $92.99 > http://www.geeks.com/details.asp?InvtId=SB-613P-XI-XEON28X2-5R > > > > That's a pretty good deal but I think this is a better one and quite close > to Andy's budget. > > http://www.geeks.com/details.asp?invtid=SM-XEQ23X2-R&cat=SVR > > > > Bruce > > > > > > Could you describe better what your constraints are? > -- > Steven Critchfield [email protected] > > > > -- > > Bruce W. Martin, KQ4TV > > Trustee for NT4UX > > Nashville Linux User Group - Amateur Radio- Special Interest Group > > NLUG-AR-SIG > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "NLUG" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "NLUG" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<nlug-talk%[email protected]> > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en
