 | View Full Version : Where to buy high end server? Eiv 06-25-2003, 02:28 AM Hi Guyz I am looking to buy a high end server for colo. Something like Dual Xeon/2GB Ram/73GB SCSI HDD. Does anyone know any place offer a good range of Xeon product and as well as good pricing?? Jchristophe 06-25-2003, 02:34 AM Hello, There are several server manufacturers, Qsol, Dell, Racklogic ... You can find the entire list here: http://www.askwebhosting.com/companieshosting.php?Lstart=0&Scat=5 and see their offers. wubwob 06-25-2003, 06:28 AM What counry ? Eiv 06-25-2003, 06:39 AM Originally posted by wubwob What counry ? USA! lol Walter 06-25-2003, 09:32 AM www.qsol.com Brad @ Xiolink 06-25-2003, 11:03 AM Dell! sailor 06-25-2003, 11:34 AM carefull with dell - many of their high end servers do not suport power on state recovery which means you can not use an apc reboot device on them. we dont use them any more for this simple reason. WebFX 06-25-2003, 11:43 AM rackmountsetc.com do custom builds. |Hp|Taliesin 06-25-2003, 06:02 PM build it yourself, get a faster machine for the same dough. gsalvatore 06-25-2003, 06:11 PM Hi Eiv, I highly recommend taking a look at the 1U & 2U servers from IBM. We're running just over 100 of these servers, a mix of x305, x330, x335 & x345 in both shared and dedicated scenarios, and have had ZERO downtime on these servers. They have been very stable, pricing [at least at our level of purchasing direct from IBM] is good and performance has been great. In the last 10 months I have only had 2 SCSI drives go bad. Both of these were on systems running RAID1 with HotSwap, so we just pulled out the drive and put in a new one. I believe IBM is still shipping their IBM director software with these servers at no charge. The software [if setup properly and using the right OS or OS flavor] is great at notifying you of impending hardware failure [predictive analysis] http://www-132.ibm.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/CategoryDisplay?storeId=1&catalogId=-840&langId=-1&categoryId=2063529&ca=sbcxseries3XX&me=W&met=inli&re=SBCIntelSvr Another goody that we have added from IBM is their Remote Console Manager. This allows full console access to up to 256 servers in the data center over IP. This is great if you need to get on the console because someone has done shutdown -h now instead of shutdown -r now :) If I can be of more assistance, let me know regards, Gene BobFarmer 06-25-2003, 06:27 PM I can't argue with the suggestions of others, but we just build a Dual Xeon 2.66 Ghz SuperMicro with dual Gig-E NICs, 8GB Registered ECC DDR RAM, and 10 73GB Ultra320 drives in RAID-5. I wouldn't put that level of hardware in anything but a SuperMicro box. 3 hot-swap power supplies (N+1 for 600W), 7 hot-swap fans, and all drives are hot-swap. http://www.supermicro.com |