[BlueOnyx:05251] Re: new hardware

[Chuck Tetlow]

Lew's got a point.

I picked up a used Dell 2650 rackmount with dual Xeon 3.06, 5x72Gig SCSI with an internal RAID card for RAID5, and 6Gig RAM.  Less that $200 and its been running flawlessly for almost two years!

Then a friend gave me a used HP DL380 rackmount with dual Xeon 3.06, about 100Gig SCSI RAID5, and 2Gig RAM.  BX really SCREAMS on it.  And all he asked was I let him host a couple sites on it.  What a deal.

Used equipment really takes off with BX.  While companies are getting rid of slightly older servers (REAL servers) because Winblows is too slow on them - BX really takes advantage of that hardware.  You can host hundreds of sites on a dual Xeon server without bogging it down.  And you can get servers like that dirt cheap!

By the way - I moved to that dual Xeon HP from a P3-900Meg with 384Meg running BQ.  Talk about a difference!

Chuck

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From: "Lew Berry" <LCBerry at lcbconsulting.net> 
To: "BlueOnyx General Mailing List" <blueonyx at blueonyx.it> 
Sent: Thu, 19 Aug 2010 17:58:06 -0400 
Subject: [BlueOnyx:05249] Re: new hardware

> BX screams on my once retired Poweredge 2800 
> 
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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 
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> www.virtbiz.com | toll-free (866) 4 VIRTBIZ 
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