The problem with gmail is paying for each account. Unless we are doing it wrong. Something like $10/mo per account,
Sent from my iPhone > On Sep 26, 2020, at 6:44 AM, Lewis Bergman <lewis.berg...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Anything DC is going to severely limit your choices. You need almost nothing > for DNS and DHCP but email...useful email takes a decent machine nowadays for > all the spam checking and header checks. I gave up doing email ages ago and > went to gmail. Best decision I ever made. No need to spark a war, just a > sideline comment. > > As for reliability, Either Dell or HP I think are the best. Haven't done Dell > in a while but when I did I was happy with them. They both make blade > servers. I have been researching blade servers recently for a new project. HP > has an 8 slot C3000 and a 16 slot C7000. Dell has the M1000e. The HP has a > storage blade that holds 16 drives and can serve as DAS, ISCSI, fiber channel > and about any other disk access you like. I think you can put 8 of those in. > They both have chassis management so you can manage the blades from a central > admin console on a hardware level. Dell is more tightly integrated with > VMWare than HP from what I could tell but I don't know what that integration > buys you. > > Both are available on the refurb market. > This next bit may be incorrect but I don't think so from what I could tell: > No matter if you buy refurb or brand new blades appear to come out a > generation behind their rack mounted brothers. For instance in HP I think the > latest you can get in a blade is a Gen9 server while current rack units and > desktop servers are at Gen 10. Gen 10 has a better iLO5 (Integrated Lights > Out) than Gen 8 and 9 iLO4. I don't believe you can upgrade that iLO > separately as it is built into the MB. Dell used to have their DRAC which > does the same thing and it plugged into a special slot so was independant of > the MB and could be upgraded but I don't know what they have now. I assume HP > moved to the on MB way to save money so I am assuming they have both moved > that way. > >> On Fri, Sep 25, 2020 at 8:09 PM <ch...@wbmfg.com> wrote: >> I need to put in some servers. I want to go durable. Last a long time. >> Thinking blade servers. >> Email, DNS etc, Perhaps in the future DHCP. Other things an ISP uses. >> >> Suggestions? I like the idea of hot swap etc. I realize VM and Hyper V, >> all kinds of virtualization makes life easy. >> But irrespective, I want bare metal reliability. >> >> Then perhaps NAS/SAN on top of it. >> -- >> AF mailing list >> AF@af.afmug.com >> http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com > > > -- > Lewis Bergman > 325-439-0533 Cell > -- > AF mailing list > AF@af.afmug.com > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com
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