Just wondering if the Raq XTR problem from last year has been cleared up, and whether it's safe to purchase one? I'm thinking about picking up one of the 1Ghz units.

If your interested in speed also combined with a good price you should give servelinux a shot I think.

We just ordered one a 1u mini. The specs on the site looks promising. There is a comparison between the XTR and servelinux.

http://www.servelinux.com


Rob

Thanks for the tip, I'm checking them out. However, I'm wondering why their admin software looks so much like Plesk?

You can do better on price then that on Cobalts

Joe

Originally posted by Troy Leaver
Thanks for the tip, I'm checking them out. However, I'm wondering why their admin software looks so much like Plesk?
Seems to be Plesk.

Originally posted by Troy Leaver
Just wondering if the Raq XTR problem from last year has been cleared up, and whether it's safe to purchase one? I'm thinking about picking up one of the 1Ghz units.

Looks fine to me - we ordered one in recently for a customer and it has been up all the time on a server that has been used very heavily for forums and audio streaming.

It is different to the RaQ4 though - not only is it full length, but it is also more like a typical 1U pentium machine. Nice thing is the hot swappable raid disk function.

They are not cheap though... oh and to get the menu up at the front, unlike on the RaQ4 when you just need to keep 'S' pressed in for a few seconds during bootup, with the XTR you have to keep the 'S' held in for around a minute... bit none of the documentation tells you this!

You also have to be careful with the memory you bung in - it has to be ECC memory.

Originally posted by cyrusTvirus
If your interested in speed also combined with a good price you should give servelinux a shot I think.

We just ordered one a 1u mini. The specs on the site looks promising. There is a comparison between the XTR and servelinux.

http://www.servelinux.com


Rob

I would have say...I feel sorry for you then.. This is the company that we found out made our 2 servers from amax.com

http://www.servelinux.com/products/1u.htm

Its been a nightmare for both us as admins and our customers with sporadic outages since the day we got them, even our brand new server had bad ram in it, out of 5 servers we bought from them, 3 were basically DOA...the other 2, the only reason why they are doing so good is because our colo customer uses it for a mysql database and the other server his got sits there with nothing but 0.00 loads...

NOTHING in their servers is name branded...not the mobo..not anything!! Every other night I wake up to a server that "stopped responding" to tcp/ip requests.

Good luck on your "mini 1u" server

We made the decision to get rid of our two servers and replace them with other servers we now get from our new source at Interpromicro.com

AotI,

Out of curiousity, what are the options for streaming audio from a Raq XTR, other than Real Media? I've been using Microsoft's solution on Windows, and it has been pretty solid (not to mention free). This is one thing that has made me hesitate from moving over to a Raq or Linux, being unsure of what my best non-Real audio streaming solution is going to be.

Thanks!
Troy

Originally posted by Troy Leaver

Out of curiousity, what are the options for streaming audio from a Raq XTR, other than Real Media? I've been using Microsoft's


Real still seems to be the choice for most streamers.. however there is also Shoutcast for MP3 (and a clone called IceCast)

I personally don't do any streaming so am not too familiar with the latest and greatest, but I thing the following link may help you. :-)

http://www.yolinux.com/TUTORIALS/LinuxTutorialAudioStreaming.html

If you have any more questions, please ask.. I do have a friend who does some streaming so should be able to get some answers for you.

AotI,

Just curious how your ServeLinux server turned out? I thought it sounded like a good deal, but I'm hesitant based on the negative feedback from AlaskanWolf.

Thanks,
Troy

Originally posted by Troy Leaver
AotI,
Just curious how your ServeLinux server turned out? I thought it sounded like a good deal, but I'm hesitant based on the negative feedback from AlaskanWolf.


Yer askin' the wrong person.. you mean to ask cyrusTvirus this questions, right? :)

You can not test their controlpannel...???

http://www.servelinux.com/service/support/sl_test/test.htm



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AotI: You're right, should've paid more attention

Angel78: Their control panel is Plesk, you can look at Plesk's demo if you want to know how it works.