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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.<br><br>
Worked great till about two weeks ago when I think I just have too many
sites on it.<br><br>
The whole intent of this machine was to take some load off my 550 to buy
me some time till I replace the 550.<br><br>
GREAT OS, GREAT SUPPORT (this forum)! Long live BX!!<br><br>
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<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">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! <br><br>
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. <br><br>
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! <br><br>
By the way - I moved to that dual Xeon HP from a P3-900Meg with 384Meg
running BQ. Talk about a difference! <br><br>
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Chuck <br><br>
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From: "Lew Berry" <LCBerry@lcbconsulting.net> <br>
To: "BlueOnyx General Mailing List"
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Sent: Thu, 19 Aug 2010 17:58:06 -0400 <br>
Subject: [BlueOnyx:05249] Re: new hardware <br><br>
> BX screams on my once retired Poweredge 2800 <br>
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> On Behalf Of Chris Gebhardt - VIRTBIZ Internet <br>
> Sent: Thursday, August 19, 2010 2:05 PM <br>
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> Gerald Waugh wrote: <br>
> > On Thu, 2010-08-19 at 12:18 -0500, webmaster (Tim Gavigan)
wrote: <br>
> >> All, <br>
> >> <br>
> >> I need to buy a server to replace my aging 550 and my newer
BX box <br>
> >> (BX box is an old p3 with 512 meg of memory. Put it
together to test <br>
> <br>
> >> it out, then put it into production, but now it's at it's
max) <br>
> >> <br>
> >> Any suggestions from "the masters" on what
machine buy? <br>
> >> <br>
> >> Note: My server guru of old recommended the 550 back in the
day but <br>
> >> they went EOL 3 months after I bought it. I don't
want to go thru <br>
> that again. <br>
> >> <br>
> > FWIW, servers go obsolete quickly, so don't expect to purchase
a <br>
> server <br>
> > that will be in stock for years :( <br>
> <br>
> Gerald is correct. Or, put in the words of Weird Al: <br>
> "My new computer's got the clocks, it rocks <br>
> But it was obsolete before I opened the box <br>
> You say you've had your desktop for over a week? <br>
> Throw that junk away, man, it's an antique <br>
> Your laptop is a month old? Well that's great <br>
> If you could use a nice, heavy paperweight" <br>
> (or watch here, if you're inclined: <br>
>
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpMvS1Q1sos">
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpMvS1Q1sos</a> ) <br>
> <br>
> Dell & HP make some fine equipment, as Kristian has
mentioned. However, <br>
> <br>
> we also have quite a bit of equipment from the likes of Supermicro,
Tyan <br>
> <br>
> and Rackable Systems. In my experience, the equipment you get
is only <br>
> as good as the vendor you buy it from. We have had nothing but
great <br>
> success with equipment we have sourced from raqware.com, and we also
<br>
> have a local vendor that we buy pre-owned equipment from. Last
year's <br>
> model may not make the biggest rocket of an ESXi server, but for
<br>
> BlueOnyx web hosting, they're more than adequate. <br>
> <br>
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