Rory, I don't think anyone answered this so I'll tell you what I use...
I have a Dell PowerEdge 2400 with a dual power-supply and hot- swappable disks (3 x 18GB, in my case). My ISP's webfarm is full of Dells so that speaks for itself (I've seen one Mac in there :-) The only complaint I have is that they seem to be very much in bed with RedHat and don't care about other flavours of Linux. This got me when I couldn't get their RAID controller to work with Debian. They provide a driver for RedHat but not for Debian. What's worse is they won't release the source (yeah, they've really bought into the Linux principles - or at least their marketing dept. has :-) We ended up using software RAID. I would still recommend the machine but make sure you moan to them about only supporting RedHat. Mine cost me around IR£6500 a few months ago. Hope that helps. Liam On 13 Nov 2000, at 13:44, Rory Campbell-Lange wrote: > Hi. We've been running a Linux intranet server on an old Apple Mac. > The use and content on the intranet is exceeding the capacity of our > old 7200, and it looks like management will cough up for a new server > to run Linux, with a tape-backup drive et al. > > I'd like a recommendation for a popular server Manufacturer/model for > our relatively modest needs. Ideally it would have about 30Gb storage. > We have up to 150 users on a 100baseT Ethernet network and more will > be connecting through a VPN. We are looking for something very > reliable and of "standard" construction - whatever that may be. We > would like to be able to install NT on it in the future if > necessary... > > As you can see I know nothing about servers, so I'd be really grateful > for advice. Incidentally, we are based in the UK. Thanks Rory > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] > < /dev/null > > > Liam Ward DV4 t: +353 1 672 7250 e: [EMAIL PROTECTED] w: www.dv4.com
