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Lew's got a point.
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<br />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!
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<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.
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<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!
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<br />By the way - I moved to that dual Xeon HP from a P3-900Meg with 384Meg running BQ. Talk about a difference!
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<br />Chuck
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From: "Lew Berry" <LCBerry@lcbconsulting.net>
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To: "BlueOnyx General Mailing List" <blueonyx@blueonyx.it>
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Sent: Thu, 19 Aug 2010 17:58:06 -0400
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Subject: [BlueOnyx:05249] Re: new hardware
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<br />> BX screams on my once retired Poweredge 2800
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From: blueonyx-bounces@blueonyx.it [mailto:blueonyx-bounces@blueonyx.it]
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On Behalf Of Chris Gebhardt - VIRTBIZ Internet
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Sent: Thursday, August 19, 2010 2:05 PM
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Subject: [BlueOnyx:05248] Re: new hardware
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Gerald Waugh wrote:
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> On Thu, 2010-08-19 at 12:18 -0500, webmaster (Tim Gavigan) wrote:
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>> All,
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>>
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>> I need to buy a server to replace my aging 550 and my newer BX box
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>> (BX box is an old p3 with 512 meg of memory. Put it together to
test
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>> it out, then put it into production, but now it's at it's max)
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>>
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>> Any suggestions from "the masters" on what machine buy?
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>>
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>> Note: My server guru of old recommended the 550 back in the day but
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>> they went EOL 3 months after I bought it. I don't want to go thru
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that again.
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>>
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> FWIW, servers go obsolete quickly, so don't expect to purchase a
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server
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> that will be in stock for years :(
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Gerald is correct. Or, put in the words of Weird Al:
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"My new computer's got the clocks, it rocks
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But it was obsolete before I opened the box
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You say you've had your desktop for over a week?
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Throw that junk away, man, it's an antique
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Your laptop is a month old? Well that's great
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If you could use a nice, heavy paperweight"
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(or watch here, if you're inclined:
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<a target="_blank" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpMvS1Q1sos">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpMvS1Q1sos</a> )
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Dell & HP make some fine equipment, as Kristian has mentioned.
However,
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we also have quite a bit of equipment from the likes of Supermicro, Tyan
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and Rackable Systems. In my experience, the equipment you get is only
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as good as the vendor you buy it from. We have had nothing but great
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success with equipment we have sourced from raqware.com, and we also
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have a local vendor that we buy pre-owned equipment from. Last year's
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model may not make the biggest rocket of an ESXi server, but for
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BlueOnyx web hosting, they're more than adequate.
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