From owner-freebsd-isp Mon Oct 16 9:19:27 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from misery.sdf.com (misery.sdf.com [204.244.213.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4E92637B66F for ; Mon, 16 Oct 2000 09:19:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from tom (helo=localhost) by misery.sdf.com with local-esmtp (Exim 2.12 #1) id 13lCbT-0000P4-00; Mon, 16 Oct 2000 08:55:07 -0700 Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2000 08:55:04 -0700 (PDT) From: Tom Samplonius To: Len Conrad Cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Rackmount Servers In-Reply-To: <5.0.0.25.0.20001016112218.04c9a110@mail.Go2France.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, 16 Oct 2000, Len Conrad wrote: > >*) The server have to be very reliable and solid hardware. > >*) Price is not the main issue > >*) Been located in a small Island far away from anywhere..we do not > >have easy access to suppliers for replacements, spares etc....hence > >reliability. > > > > Would you recommend going for compaq or dell solution? > > In your situation, I wouldn't touch proprietary hardare. I wouldn't consider either Dell or Compaq propietary hardware, especially Dell. Dell is just a system assembler, they don't make any components themselves. > Buy 1U and 2U empty cases, and build your own servers and appliances > from quality components. Most 1U cases don't allow redundant power supplies. Power supply failures are either the number 1 or number 2 source of system failures. > Len > > > http://BIND8NT.MEIway.com: ISC BIND 8.2.2 p5 installable binary for NT4 > http://IMGate.MEIway.com: Build free, hi-perf, anti-spam mail gateways Tom To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message