Hello, my personal view is that all this stuff ("someOS-compatible") is
crap. Just look for good & qualitative parts for the server and that's
it.
My actual recommendation for server with several responsibilities in
small companies is an Vanerpool enabled Intel-machine for using with
Xen, some gigs of ram and a battery cached hotswap&hotspare
hardware-raid-5 controller with much ram. And of course a UPS.Best regards Goran Am Dienstag, den 27.06.2006, 12:10 +0000 schrieb ZeroUno: > Hello, I work in a small company where we have an internal > file/web/some-other-small-things server running Debian Sarge. It's a > "standard" PC used for server purposes, not a real server. > Now we're investigating the possibility to upgrade it, and we also want > to consider REAL servers, but... judging on the info collected until > now, I'm wondering if this actually makes sense. > > As far as I can see, when you look at server machines, e.g. entry level > servers from IBM or Intel, they officially declare Linux compatibility > only for commercial distributions such as Red Hat and SuSE. I still have > to find a server which is official declared Debian-compatible. > > So I'm asking: why should I buy a server and pay much more than the > price of a custom-made high level PC, if I'm not even sure it will work > fine with the OS I'm using, running the risk of encountering binary-only > drivers for some server features and such, and being pretty sure that in > case of problems I'll not be able to obtain support from the hardware > producer because I'm not using one of the officially supported OSs? > > What would you suggest us to do? > Or maybe someone can suggest any Debian-compatible servers? > Any experiences in this regard? > Thanks, any info can be really useful. > > -- > 01 > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
