Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2006 22:01:16 -0400 From: Robert Blayzor <rblayzor@inoc.net> To: akachler@telcom.net Cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Server Hardware Recommendations Message-ID: <44BC40EC.7040006@inoc.net> In-Reply-To: <44BC3E76.7070401@telcom.net> References: <Pine.BSF.4.64.0607171329220.47310@elara.frii.com> <44BC3E76.7070401@telcom.net>
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Arie Kachler wrote: > We've been in business since 1996 and can only praise Dell servers. They > used to be more expensive, but they are now very competitive in pricing. > Our first server was a Dell, and it's still going! (only monitoring I have to second this. We originally purchased about 30+ Dell servers five years ago. (mostly 1550's, 2550's and 6450's) and they've chugged right along. I think the only problems we've ever had are hard drives going bad, and I think one RAID card. That however is quickly solved by using Dell 4hr support. Speaking of which, their support is very affordable. I also must say that their server hardware is maturing quite well. We have all of the models over the years, 1550's, 1650's, 1750's, 1850's and soon 1950's. Each model we see significant improvement on the server architecture. The only downside is that usually it takes a while for the FreeBSD drivers to catch up with the newer hardware devices. We're looking to replace a lot of our old Dell servers now with new Dell servers (1950's and 1955's) but we have to make sure all of the drivers have matured before we make such an investment. -- Robert Blayzor, BOFH INOC, LLC rblayzor\@(inoc.net|gmail.com) PGP: 0x66F90BFC @ http://pgp.mit.edu Key fingerprint = 6296 F715 038B 44C1 2720 292A 8580 500E 66F9 0BFC Logic: The art of being wrong with confidence...
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