From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jun 15 23:29:03 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B614216A4CE for ; Tue, 15 Jun 2004 23:29:03 +0000 (GMT) Received: from enigma.whacky.net (enigma.whacky.net [217.148.161.174]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2B2CD43D49 for ; Tue, 15 Jun 2004 23:29:03 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from stephanb@whacky.net) Received: from localhost (localhost.whacky.net [127.0.0.1]) by enigma.whacky.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3558320F32 for ; Wed, 16 Jun 2004 01:29:01 +0200 (CEST) Received: from enigma.whacky.net ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (enigma.whacky.net [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with SMTP id 90151-03 for ; Wed, 16 Jun 2004 01:28:57 +0200 (CEST) Received: by enigma.whacky.net (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 101DD20F1F; Wed, 16 Jun 2004 01:28:57 +0200 (CEST) Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2004 01:28:56 +0200 From: Stephan van Beerschoten To: questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20040615232856.GE24771@enigma.whacky.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="lrZ03NoBR/3+SXJZ" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at whacky.net Subject: new server hardware recommendations ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 23:29:03 -0000 --lrZ03NoBR/3+SXJZ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi Folks, I'm will be retiring my old and trusty rackmount machine soon and will be purchasing a new one to replace it. The old one was a home-grown combination of hardware, fitting into a 2U chassis. For its replacement however, I am looking for a more professional system, including professional (hardware) support if needed, because I will be trying to run some paid services of it. Something from a vendor like Dell, IBM or HP/Compaq. Something that preferably fits into 1U and can give me some degree of hardware fault tolerance like a raid5 built-in on 3 disks. I have seen something like this coming from Dell for example (allthough I'd really rather use 2x AMD64, which Dell doesn't do ..) Anyway, who is using FreeBSD in a professional world on hardware like this ? Anyone with a recommendation? This 'swap' won't happen untill Q4 this year, so it will be running 5-STABLE then. Please take this new platform into consideration for when recommending new hardware. Thanks, Stephan (asking as a individual; not in behalf of any company) --=20 Stephan van Beerschoten [KeyID: 0x08F12864] "If you are adminstering UNIX systems and don't master tools such as make, shell, and perl, then you are working too hard." -- Wietse Venema. Fri, 12 Dec 2003 --lrZ03NoBR/3+SXJZ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFAz4Y4JliZ6wjxKGQRAjleAJ96IVbgu6LxV0D3jXQRmibfjD+95wCgmW3f iDQbfmmsETGGCK4aUAPi7lQ= =58Gw -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --lrZ03NoBR/3+SXJZ--