From owner-freebsd-isp Mon Oct 16 10:55:49 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from bilver.wjv.com (dhcp-1-82.n01.orldfl01.us.ra.verio.net [157.238.210.82]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BA8BD37B503 for ; Mon, 16 Oct 2000 10:55:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from bill@localhost) by bilver.wjv.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id NAA21823 for freebsd-isp@freebsd.org; Mon, 16 Oct 2000 13:55:28 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from bill) Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2000 13:55:28 -0400 From: Bill Vermillion To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Rackmount Servers Message-ID: <20001016135528.A21791@wjv.com> Reply-To: bv@bilver.wjv.com References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from hamellr@heorot.1nova.com on Sun, Oct 15, 2000 at 09:55:29AM +0000 Organization: W.J.Vermillion / Orlando - Winter Park Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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