From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 16 2:29:18 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from beta.root-servers.ch (beta.root-servers.ch [195.49.33.19]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4E87E37B502 for ; Mon, 16 Oct 2000 02:29:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 14651 invoked from network); 16 Oct 2000 09:29:11 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO WORK) (62.2.106.244) by beta.root-servers.ch with SMTP; 16 Oct 2000 09:29:11 -0000 Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2000 11:32:53 +0200 From: Gabriel Ambuehl X-Mailer: The Bat! (v1.47 Beta/7) UNREG / CD5BF9353B3B7091 Organization: BUZ Internet Services X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <1065874527.20001016113253@buz.ch> To: Muditha Gunatilake Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Rackmount Servers In-reply-To: <39EAC92A.A3F91F0D@seychelles.net> References: <39EAC92A.A3F91F0D@seychelles.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello Muditha, Monday, October 16, 2000, 11:23:55 AM, you wrote: > We are a small ISP running FreeBSD. I am interested in purchasing rack > mount servers to replace the seprate individual servers we have at > present. > *) 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? Neither of the two (but if you really want: Dell or IBM). Personally, I'd recommend that you build your servers your selves, that way you know what there's in there and even more important: you know how to fix the hardware if it breaks. Not that easy with the proprietary crap the big vendors (especially Compaq but IBM as well) use. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message