From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Oct 29 18:27:45 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D9F4A1065674 for ; Fri, 29 Oct 2010 18:27:45 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nvidican@m2.vidican.com) Received: from mail-ww0-f50.google.com (mail-ww0-f50.google.com [74.125.82.50]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7B33E8FC15 for ; Fri, 29 Oct 2010 18:27:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wwi17 with SMTP id 17so2219602wwi.31 for ; Fri, 29 Oct 2010 11:27:44 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.216.191.210 with SMTP id g60mr11999378wen.5.1288376864123; Fri, 29 Oct 2010 11:27:44 -0700 (PDT) Sender: nvidican@m2.vidican.com Received: by 10.216.234.217 with HTTP; Fri, 29 Oct 2010 11:27:44 -0700 (PDT) X-Originating-IP: [136.1.1.105] In-Reply-To: References: Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2010 14:27:44 -0400 X-Google-Sender-Auth: GP6ffBsbq7GS1XeDt-eIZwWyl9c Message-ID: From: Nathan Vidican To: Scott Sipe Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Server hardware X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2010 18:27:45 -0000 On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 11:52 AM, Scott Sipe wrote: > Hello, > > I'm getting ready to buy a new server system (running FreeBSD of course) for > a small business. I have always before bought off-the-shelf parts and built > my own, but am thinking of getting a packaged system this time. I want > something fairly horsey. Xeon(s), 8-16gb ram, several terabytes storage, > etc. The system will run at least one VM (virtualbox) at all times, and I've > been thinking about using an SSD for the system drive and database storage, > and a RAID for the rest. > > My question -- are any server vendors well recommended for FreeBSD? I've > looked at some seemingly decently priced Dells/HPs, but would appreciate any > advice. Seems there are at times some hardware issues with some Dell > controllers. > > Thanks, > Scott > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > Might I suggest checking out: http://www.freebsd.org/commercial/hardware.html ? -- Nathan Vidican nathan@vidican.com