Just curious, are you using Dell, Cobalt, ect. And please state weather you recommend them or not. Thanks, I'm interested in buying and want to do it right the first time.

Depends.

I have colos on 2 separate networks. One gives a discount for 1U racks, so I use penguincomputing and I am very happy with there servers. www.penguincomputing.com

The other does not care what kind of box I use, so I just make one out of a regular tower.

Both work fine and I use Redhat 6.2/Apache

Good Luck

Our web server is a Dell PowerEdge 1400 (not SC). The 1400's aren't available anymore, I don't think. It's a tower machine. I'd highly recommend Dell because they always have deals going on and they have nice support packages (that are usually included in the price of a server). Purchase your machine over the phone and it ships the next day or day after. Purchase it online and it may take a few more days to ship. Also, purchasing over the phone sometimes gets you a cheaper price than what the online system gives you.

Just my experiences anyway. :)

Rack Saver - the name says it all. would you buy a Car Saver? 3 Hardware failures out of like 8 machines.

Crystal PC - Expensive, 2 hardware failures out of 4 machines.

Penguin Computing - Decent price, no problems so far.

-Brendan

I have compaq prolaint 5500's. One rack and one tower, I like them, but I think that model is not made anymore

No hardware failure, all works good, the only problem is that hard drives and memory cost an arm and a leg. Thank GOD for ebay

We use Cobalts - Dells - Generic (e.g. self made) and Fujitsu siemens.

The Fujitsu Siemens are fantastic boxes - a bit difficult to install the OS but they run like a ROCKET :)

Aloha

a couple virtual accounts No idea
other dedicated
Cobalt RaQ4 no probs yet

Dell AppServer no problems yet

future
another Del AppServer

At Cephren, cephrenhosting.com, we've been using a range of Dell Poweredge 1550, 2550, 4400, 6540 for some time now and I would definately say these are one of the most reliable server's my company has come across for especially for Windows 2000 Advance Hosting.

The Poweredge 4400 has been working especially well as Web servers as ours all come in Dual Xeon 733 Processors.
Handles almost everything......


For our Unix/Linux Hosting, we use Sun Cobalt RaQ4i, 4rs and we used to have XTR's until they were recalled.
We also use Dell Power.App Servers.....which are great.

Id highly recommend the Dell Power App servers.
Good price, good reliability.


Cephren

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