[BlueOnyx:05249] Re: new hardware

[Lew Berry]

BX screams on my once retired Poweredge 2800

Lew Berry, MCSE, MCT, CSSA
LCB Consulting Inc.
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St Johns FL, 32259
LCBerry at LCBConsulting.net
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-----Original Message-----
From: blueonyx-bounces at blueonyx.it [mailto:blueonyx-bounces at blueonyx.it]
On Behalf Of Chris Gebhardt - VIRTBIZ Internet
Sent: Thursday, August 19, 2010 2:05 PM
To: BlueOnyx General Mailing List
Subject: [BlueOnyx:05248] Re: new hardware

Gerald Waugh wrote:
> On Thu, 2010-08-19 at 12:18 -0500, webmaster (Tim Gavigan) wrote:
>> All,
>>
>> I need to buy a server to replace my aging 550 and my newer BX box 
>> (BX box is an old p3 with 512 meg of memory.  Put it together to test

>> it out, then put it into production, but now it's at it's max)
>>
>> Any suggestions from "the masters" on what machine buy?
>>
>> Note: My server guru of old recommended the 550 back in the day but 
>> they went EOL 3 months after I bought it.  I don't want to go thru
that again.
>>
> FWIW, servers go obsolete quickly, so don't expect to purchase a
server
> that will be in stock for years :(

Gerald is correct.  Or, put in the words of Weird Al:
"My new computer's got the clocks, it rocks
But it was obsolete before I opened the box
You say you've had your desktop for over a week?
Throw that junk away, man, it's an antique
Your laptop is a month old? Well that's great
If you could use a nice, heavy paperweight"
(or watch here, if you're inclined: 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpMvS1Q1sos )

Dell & HP make some fine equipment, as Kristian has mentioned.  However,

we also have quite a bit of equipment from the likes of Supermicro, Tyan

and Rackable Systems.  In my experience, the equipment you get is only 
as good as the vendor you buy it from.  We have had nothing but great 
success with equipment we have sourced from raqware.com, and we also 
have a local vendor that we buy pre-owned equipment from.  Last year's 
model may not make the biggest rocket of an ESXi server, but for 
BlueOnyx web hosting, they're more than adequate.

-- 
Chris Gebhardt
VIRTBIZ Internet Services
Access, Web Hosting, Colocation, Dedicated
www.virtbiz.com | toll-free (866) 4 VIRTBIZ
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