Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2000 13:10:13 -0700 From: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> To: heckfordj@psi-domain.co.uk Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: hardware Dell or BSDi Message-ID: <3A37D7A5.2A3F5360@softweyr.com> References: <200012130749.IAA08219@mail.hmth.nl> <00121309232802.00233@freefire.psi-domain.co.uk>
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Jamie Heckford wrote: > > http://www.psi-domain.co.uk/ > > alot cheaper and better. Quoting from the web page: Router - The freePath The freePath is suited for high performance routing and can additionally be deployed as either a firewall or proxy server. ... Based on the rock solid FreeBSD, these units are hard to match for price and performance. While I don't doubt it, this seems an interesting viewpoint for the "Innovative Linux Solutions" company. Your prices do seem reasonable, I must say. > On Wed, 13 Dec 2000, you wrote: > > Hello all, > > > > We are going to buy our first 1U 19" rack server (pizzacarton size), and > > probably there will be more in the future, they have to run FreeBSD > > 4.1-stable. > > > > Normally we buy all our hardware at Dell, they also have this kind of > > servers, for instance the PowerApp Web 100, we have also seen this kind of > > servers form BSDi.com, they have FreeBSD preinstalled, and say they are > > completely optimized. But they are considerably more expensive. > > > > Can anyone tell me more about both these servers, how good is the BSDi > > machine (and the organization), does FreeBSD install on the Dell and so on? We have recently purchased an iXtreme 1210 running OpenBSD and it has been entirely acceptable. We purchased it to server as a DNS server and it seems completely up to the job, though we haven't fed it much of a load yet. At $1327, the price is definitely on the low end for 1U servers. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC wes@softweyr.com http://softweyr.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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