From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Feb 8 02:13:26 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3F24A16A49C for ; Thu, 8 Feb 2007 02:13:20 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@henriklidstrom.se) Received: from ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net (ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net [80.76.149.212]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E0B3813C4A3 for ; Thu, 8 Feb 2007 02:13:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@henriklidstrom.se) Received: from c83-250-106-220.bredband.comhem.se ([83.250.106.220]:52406 helo=mailgw.henriklidstrom.se) by ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net with esmtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1HEyY3-00036i-6R; Thu, 08 Feb 2007 02:58:08 +0100 Received: from localhost (localhost.henriklidstrom.se [127.0.0.1]) by mailgw.henriklidstrom.se (Postfix) with ESMTP id D7CE6EC701; Thu, 8 Feb 2007 02:57:57 +0100 (CET) Received: from mailgw.henriklidstrom.se ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mailgw.henriklidstrom.se [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 47313-07; Thu, 8 Feb 2007 02:57:51 +0100 (CET) Received: from [192.168.0.2] (henkezan.henriklidstrom.se [192.168.0.2]) by mailgw.henriklidstrom.se (Postfix) with ESMTP id 258DAEBD90; Thu, 8 Feb 2007 02:57:51 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <45CA83A6.2050004@henriklidstrom.se> Date: Thu, 08 Feb 2007 02:57:58 +0100 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Henrik_Lidstr=F6m?= User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.9 (Windows/20061207) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Devin Heckman References: <20070207232641.GD6168@rescomp.berkeley.edu> In-Reply-To: <20070207232641.GD6168@rescomp.berkeley.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at henriklidstrom.se X-Scan-Result: No virus found in message 1HEyY3-00036i-6R. X-Scan-Signature: ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net 1HEyY3-00036i-6R f156661a0f65669549192bc639d4d02f Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Server vendors 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: Thu, 08 Feb 2007 02:13:26 -0000 Devin Heckman skrev: > Hi, > > The organization I work for is looking to purchase hardware that will > serve as a backup server running FreeBSD. We have purchased from IBM for > many years, but we are looking at branching out and purchasing from a > vendor which explicitly supports FreeBSD. > > I have been looking at > > http://www.freebsdsystems.com/ > > recently, and am wondering if anyone on this list has any experience > with this vendor. If not, from whom do you recommend buying hardware for > a FreeBSD server? We look for good service contracts (on-site hardware > support available, for example) as well as reliable hardware. > > (Though this may not be necessary, we're looking at buying something > that can handle the backup of greater than 20 and less than 40 servers, > but remain under a budget of $5k. We think we'll need ~1TB of storage > space. Needless to say, we don't need state-of-the-art hardware to > accomplish this.) > > Thanks a bunch! > > > Also look at iXsystems. ( http://www.ixsystems.com ) Matt Olander (CTO) seems like a really great guy, and is a long term advocate of BSD. BSDTalk interview with Matt : http://bsdtalk.blogspot.com/2006/10/bsdtalk077-matt-olander-from-ixsystems.html I have also seen him on TechTV. /Henrik