One answer only... SuperMicro.
One of the few OEMs that has consistent availabilty of specific model
Mainboards.
Alot of work goes into making distros specific to a chipset, its nice to
know it can still be gotten two years later.
We use 2U cases for everything now. Its helpful to have the th
I would second the 'buy a pre-built system' option. I have built my own
servers for over 10 years and honestly for production servers I would
rather buy a dell or a compaq rackmount with redundant power supplies,
true hardware raid and hot swap drives.
If you are just starting out and on a bud
Agree. Tyan and SuperMicro are almost bullet-proof!
But, read the docs before you set them up!
Mike Hammett wrote:
A Tyan or SuperMicro would make a better motherboard.
--Mike
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Build two and have them mirrored. ;-)
--Mike
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From: "Mike Bushard, Jr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2007 10:53 PM
Subject: RE: [WISPA] DIY Server Questions
We buy SuperMicro
Howdy from Alaska,
After searching long and hard for nice servers, we went with these:
http://www.aslab.com/products/rackmount/rackmount.html
They have been solid, without incident and running 24/7/365.
We can get different types of drives depending on what we need, mem options are
very nice an
29, 2007 9:51 PM
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Subject: Re: [WISPA] DIY Server Questions
I agree get a server motherboard, both tyan and supermicro make good
server level boards (I prefer supermicro) they come with options for
ipmi management and other excellent features.
Ryan
On Aug 29, 2007, at 9
I agree get a server motherboard, both tyan and supermicro make good
server level boards (I prefer supermicro) they come with options for
ipmi management and other excellent features.
Ryan
On Aug 29, 2007, at 9:07 PM, Mike Hammett wrote:
A Tyan or SuperMicro would make a better motherboar
A Tyan or SuperMicro would make a better motherboard.
--Mike
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From: "Dave Brenton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "WISPA General List"
Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2007 4:35 PM
Subject: [WISPA] DIY Server Questions
Hi Gang!
I'm finally, at long last building my Networ
While I would free comfortable building my own servers (the OS setup
is custom). I buy hardware from Dell. Its solid server equipment and
very easy to work with.
I would recommend checking into buying servers prebuilt. While
building your own seems to be cheaper. there are numerous added
You can get racks from lots of places. I would check with someplace local
since shipping them can get expensive. For rackmount cases any good PC parts
retailer should have them from 1U up to match any configuration you might
want. I would suggest getting something with a common power supply.
On Wed, August 29, 2007 4:35 pm, Dave Brenton wrote:
> I'm finally, at long last building my Network Operations Center
> and would love to hear recommendations from the brave
> souls out there that build their own hardware.
I've done this, and I've also done the "buy a pre-built system" thing. Th
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