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That's pretty hard without more info. Is this for a single server, or |
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are you looking for a vendor? What kind of server are you looking for |
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-- what will it be used for? |
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Some thoughts: |
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Dell -- Avoid. Dell is a follower. They don't innovate, just copy |
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prior successes. Also we've noticed that their 1U servers start to bend |
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in the rack -- very lame. But they frequently are cheaper... |
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IBM -- if they are your vendor and you are getting good service, they |
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make a wide variety of excellent products. I'm currently in the process |
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of retasking some 4+ year old servers that still work beautifully. IBM |
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can be very pricey though. |
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HP -- some of their new products are pretty cool. They are trying |
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REALLY hard to push new technology and excellent service. One of our |
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associated groups is sold on HP and have been buying large numbers of HP |
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servers. |
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1U best for single role servers |
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2U more flexible -- should be 2P. |
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4U should be only for the most demanding roles (DB or heavy crunchers) |
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jbw |
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Jonathan S. Romero wrote: |
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> Hello, |
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> Can anyone reccomend a rackmount server to use on a new gentoo server system? |
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> Also, does anyone have any experience with OpenGroupware.Org as a replacement |
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> for an MS Exchange server? |
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> -Jonathan S. Romero |
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