From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jul 20 15:28:27 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3E05037B401 for ; Sun, 20 Jul 2003 15:28:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from angryfist.fasttrackmonkey.com (angryfist.fasttrackmonkey.com [216.223.196.4]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 19C5A43FBD for ; Sun, 20 Jul 2003 15:28:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from spork@fasttrackmonkey.com) Received: (qmail 2018 invoked by uid 85); 20 Jul 2003 22:26:36 -0000 Received: from spork@fasttrackmonkey.com by angryfist.fasttrackmonkey.com Processed in 0.067615 secs); 20 Jul 2003 22:26:36 -0000 X-Qmail-Scanner-Mail-From: spork@fasttrackmonkey.com via angryfist.fasttrackmonkey.com X-Qmail-Scanner: 1.10 (Clear:0. Processed in 0.067615 secs) Received: from unknown (HELO green.nat.fasttrackmonkey.com) (66.92.108.110) by 0 with DES-CBC3-SHA encrypted SMTP; 20 Jul 2003 22:26:36 -0000 Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2003 18:28:23 -0400 (EDT) From: spork Sender: spork@green.nat.fasttrackmonkey.com To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20030720182133.X59500@green.nat.fasttrackmonkey.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Subject: Iron Systems opinions X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2003 22:28:27 -0000 Hi, I'm shopping for a cheap 1U server, and I stumbled upon Iron Systems from their ads on daemonnews.org. They have three servers that seem to fit the bill for a small mail/web server. One looks to be a VIA-based system, possibly with a mini-itx board (the A110), another is an AMD system (A152), and the last is a Celeron-based system (A120). I'm leaning towards the A120 as it has embedded Intel ethernet, and the others seem to be VIA ethernet, which seem to be a bit on the flakey side under FreeBSD (at least according to some threads in -stable where people were using some VIA mini-itx boards with the same controller). I'm waiting to hear back from them on just what motherboards are in these systems, but in the meantime, does anyone have any experience with these they'd care to share? I'll be ordering with no hard drives and buying a 3ware IDE RAID controller and drives seperately. If any of these actually support any hardware monitoring (cpu temp, fan rpms) that would be a really big plus for me. There's also (as always) interesting stuff on EBay, namely some refurb IBM 300 series 1Us. Just looking for any feedback or any other recommendations on good, cheap 1Us for small-scale hosting. Thanks, Charles