> On Thu, 20 Feb 2003 23:20, echelon wrote:
>
>>I’m trying to get some new servers, but I’m not quiet sure that I’m
>>buying the right hardware.
>
>
> It appears from the web page that you are buying for price, this is risky as
> there are many features of designed server machines that will greatly improve
> reliability. Better fans, better testing and QA.
>
> For Linux servers I've found Dell servers to work well. Well designed and
> engineered, and they perform really well under heavy load.
I had a lot of trouble with Dell hardware over the las 7 years. HP Prolient and Fujitsu-Siemens Primergy servers do just fine. Both have very nice Blade servers and external storage. Oh and have a look at the Acer Altos R500 Servers.
If uptime is your most importent issue than use SUN hardware.
>
> Another thing, I recommend making the hardware the same as much as possible.
And keep enough spare parts around.
> You don't really want to have three different motherboards in three different
> machines. That means there's more chance of hitting bugs. If you have three
> the same and there's a bug then you can often implement a work-around, or get
> them returned. If there's a bug in one then you will probably take longer to
> discover it, and having different work-arounds for different machines is a
> pain to manage.
>
> If your aim is to use cheap desktop machines as servers for a small ISP then
> it might be best to ask on debian-user for general hardware issues.
Or use the Fujitsu-Siemens ECONEL Servers. They're value for money. We use them for a large firewall/vpn rollout right now.
greets Uwe -- X-Tec GmbH Institute for Computer and Network Security WWW : http://www.x-tec.de/ IPv6: http://www.ipv6.x-tec.de/
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