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Subject: Re: Suggestions for server hardware sub 800 dollars
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On Oct 21, 2005, at 4:18 PM, Matt Crossley wrote:

> I've found that if it's not really all that heavy a load, machines  
> at Dell that regularly come up are worth it.
> The latest one that I saw in a Dell flyer (in Canada), was a  
> Celeron 2.9, 512MB, 80 or 60GB, etc, etc for $349 CAD.
> Can beat it, in many ways!
>
> If you want to build it yourself, then maybe you can build yourself  
> a little mini-ATX machine, one that's small and out of the way?
>
> Cheers,
> Matt


Speaking of Dell... I know that I have seen some pretty nifty 1u rack  
servers for as little as $450.
You don't to build it, but not a bad deal IMHO.

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