[BlueOnyx:05254] Re: new hardware

Fri Aug 20 07:23:52 -05 2010

My current BX box is running on and old p4 with 256 meg of ram!   I 
would put more memory in it but I can get any more in the box.

Worked great till about two weeks ago when I think I just have too 
many sites on it.

The whole intent of this machine was to take some load off my 550 to 
buy me some time till I replace the 550.

GREAT OS, GREAT SUPPORT (this forum)!  Long live BX!!

>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>
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>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>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.
> >
> > --
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