Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2000 13:55:28 -0400 From: Bill Vermillion <bill@bilver.wjv.com> To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Rackmount Servers Message-ID: <20001016135528.A21791@wjv.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0010150941110.1245-100000@heorot.1nova.com>; from hamellr@heorot.1nova.com on Sun, Oct 15, 2000 at 09:55:29AM %2B0000 References: <Pine.BSF.4.05.10010160912301.26793-100000@misery.sdf.com> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0010150941110.1245-100000@heorot.1nova.com>
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On Sun, Oct 15, 2000 at 09:55:29AM +0000, Rick Hamell thus spoke: > > Besides, Dell offers three years warranty on their components > > standard, so why bother trying to replace something that is > > covered under warranty? Pretty much everything is redundant > > anyhow. > Warranties aren't any good if you're down... the point is to > buy stuff that will minimize needing to use the warranty at all. > I personally believe that none of the major manufacturers build > good enough equipment. I much prefer to buy and piece it together > myself. I'm fairly impressed with the iNTEL 1100R server platform. The BIOS re-direct through the serial port on boot-up can be quite handy for a light-out environment if you have a remote capable power-switch too. It's main target is for ISP hosting. We used to always build our own until we found that machine, and I think it will be our standard platform. -- Bill Vermillion - bv @ wjv . com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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