From owner-freebsd-advocacy Thu Sep 9 15:44:41 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from fledge.watson.org (fledge.watson.org [204.156.12.50]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D3163154B0 for ; Thu, 9 Sep 1999 15:44:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from robert@cyrus.watson.org) Received: from fledge.watson.org (robert@fledge.pr.watson.org [192.0.2.3]) by fledge.watson.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id SAA11956; Thu, 9 Sep 1999 18:44:10 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from robert@cyrus.watson.org) Date: Thu, 9 Sep 1999 18:44:10 -0400 (EDT) From: Robert Watson X-Sender: robert@fledge.watson.org Reply-To: Robert Watson To: David Greenman Cc: jmutter@netwalk.com, freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Company offering FreeBSD on custom built servers. In-Reply-To: <199909090339.UAA11385@implode.root.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 8 Sep 1999, David Greenman wrote: > >I though that people might find this interesting: > > > >http://www.rackspace.com/products/pricing.php3 > > It appears that they only offer leasing (actually more like rental) options > for custom servers. Of course TeraSolutions (my company) builds custom FreeBSD > servers and RAID storage systems, with the system tuned for out of the box > high load use. We actually sell the equipment, though, but can arrange leasing > through outside finance companies. Just took a look at the TeraSolutions web page and am quite impressed :-). What RAID controller/etc are you using, and how much support does FreeBSD have for it? Also, Dell (and other vendors) has a nice feature where they offer on-site support with varying time guarantees depending on how much you pay--usually through contracters local to the customer--have you considered (or already have) something like this? Robert N M Watson robert@fledge.watson.org http://www.watson.org/~robert/ PGP key fingerprint: AF B5 5F FF A6 4A 79 37 ED 5F 55 E9 58 04 6A B1 TIS Labs at Network Associates, Safeport Network Services To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message