From owner-freebsd-advocacy Thu Sep 9 16: 1:50 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from implode.root.com (root.com [209.102.106.178]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4E9A515891 for ; Thu, 9 Sep 1999 16:01:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dg@implode.root.com) Received: from implode.root.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by implode.root.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id PAA14678; Thu, 9 Sep 1999 15:59:33 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199909092259.PAA14678@implode.root.com> To: Robert Watson Cc: jmutter@netwalk.com, freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Company offering FreeBSD on custom built servers. In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 09 Sep 1999 18:44:10 EDT." From: David Greenman Reply-To: dg@root.com Date: Thu, 09 Sep 1999 15:59:33 -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >On Wed, 8 Sep 1999, David Greenman wrote: > >> >I though that people might find this interesting: >> > >> >http://www.rackspace.com/products/pricing.php3 >> >> It appears that they only offer leasing (actually more like rental) options >> for custom servers. Of course TeraSolutions (my company) builds custom FreeBSD >> servers and RAID storage systems, with the system tuned for out of the box >> high load use. We actually sell the equipment, though, but can arrange leasing >> through outside finance companies. > >Just took a look at the TeraSolutions web page and am quite impressed :-). I'm glad for that...what we have up for a web site right now needs serious work according to some people. It's really intended to be a place holder until we can hire someone to do a professional web design. >What RAID controller/etc are you using, and how much support does FreeBSD >have for it? My current favorite is the CMD CRD-5440-104, which is an external SCSI-SCSI RAID controller and works great with FreeBSD. > Also, Dell (and other vendors) has a nice feature where they >offer on-site support with varying time guarantees depending on how much >you pay--usually through contracters local to the customer--have you >considered (or already have) something like this? We're still talking about this internally. Right now we offer your typical 1-2 day response. Our systems usually have a high degree of redundancy built in (dual hot swap power supplies, RAID-5 with hot-swap disk drives, etc), so typical disk/PS failures are already covered. For people that need near zero time response to other types of system failures, we suggest getting a completely redundant server. I can't really see how one could rely on any support contract in a business-critical application. -DG David Greenman Co-founder/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project - http://www.freebsd.org Creator of high-performance Internet servers - http://www.terasolutions.com Pave the road of life with opportunities. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message