Where can you get Cobalt RaQs these days? In another forum I mentioned hosting appliances and no one knew what I was talking about.

I've seen one guy using the RaQ 550 code on Supermicro Servers

I had a RaQ3 around 2001-2002 because I knew nothing of Linux (Windows was my thing)

Ebay. Usually for under $100. Of course, you're likely to receive it vanilla with Cobalt Linux installed, which is a decade old and highly vulnerable, so I'd suggest searching for one with Strongbolt OS / BlueQuartz pre-installed. If you can't find a RaQ with this configuration, zeffie.com offers software & security updates for the older releases. Good luck.

Also: I wouldn't purchase anything under a RaQ4. You'll wind up with compatibility issues...

Not quite sure where are you located but I have quite a few Raq4 450MHz, 20GB HD and 512MB Ram in central london.

Collection is welcome....like 5ivepdx said, they all come with cobalt linux installed so you can purchase those strongbolt cds and install the new software yourself.

Thanks for the info. I will be following up on those sources.

Note that the hardware for Cobalt systems is now quite old, though many find the system pretty reliable. More modern versions of the software stack for a "hosting appliance" is available from several places, including the Blue Onyx, Blue Quartz, and others. These latter (mostly CentOS-based) stacks include more contemporary versions of PHP, MySQL, Bind, and other code, and are to be preferred to the old Raq code.

edit: (incorrect thread)

http://www.blueonyx.it is another place to look, I have tested this on a few whiteboxes and it ran with no problems.

Thanks,
Anthony

www.raqware.com is the only source I would trust for this equipment anymore.

You might also be interested in the BlueOnyx project, which runs on "modern" hardware with a "modern" kernel, and is being constantly developed and maintained. www.blueonyx.it BlueOnyx is the most current continuation of the Sausalito (RaQ550) base platform. It's a CentOS 5 fork of BlueQuartz.

Why do you say on new hardware : I run blueonyx on a raq 550 with the php upgrade and : never seen a server so easy for developping web applications (I have work a lot with free-eos, sme-server, bluequartz, strongbolt, raqstar, debian+cpanel or webmin, ...)

=> installing blueonyx on a raq 3,4 or 550 is easy but take time (3 to 5 hours), need a db9 cable, the restore cd of the cobalt from sun and strongbolt1 ... but if you have a raq and you want to always use it ... Do it ! :cool:

-> run on my cobalt =>
NPDS
Wordpress
Dolphin
Gallery2 Menalto
Drupal
Joomla
Picok
Torrentflux
Vtiger
Moregroupware
Egroupware
...

and more (67 new web api up to date on it cause it serve to test open-source web api)

Why do you say on new hardware : I run blueonyx on a raq 550 with the php upgrade and : never seen a server so easy for developping web applications (I have work a lot with free-eos, sme-server, bluequartz, strongbolt, raqstar, debian+cpanel or webmin, ...)

=> installing blueonyx on a raq 3,4 or 550 is easy but take time (3 to 5 hours), need a db9 cable, the restore cd of the cobalt from sun and strongbolt1 ... but if you have a raq and you want to always use it ... Do it ! :cool:

-> run on my cobalt =>
NPDS
Wordpress
Dolphin
Gallery2 Menalto
Drupal
Joomla
Picok
Torrentflux
Vtiger
Moregroupware
Egroupware
...

and more (67 new web api up to date on it cause it serve to test open-source web api)

If you don't mind sharing, how do you install Joomla on a Cobalt? I've read a few posts where people mention it, but not many, and those that do don't mention any specifics on how to do the install. I'm a noob with Cobalts, so I have no idea how to do it. I have a Raq4i, as well as two XTRs. I would probably install it on one of the XTR units, as my Raq4i is running RaqCop. One of the XTRs runs BlueOnyx and the other runs StrongBolt 1.

If you don't mind sharing, how do you install Joomla on a Cobalt? I've read a few posts where people mention it, but not many, and those that do don't mention any specifics on how to do the install. I'm a noob with Cobalts, so I have no idea how to do it. I have a Raq4i, as well as two XTRs. I would probably install it on one of the XTR units, as my Raq4i is running RaqCop. One of the XTRs runs BlueOnyx and the other runs StrongBolt 1.

You have installed Blueonyx on an XTR ... so you just have to read how to install joomla on the official site : create a website in the pannel of the blueonyx and upload your files, make the installation and configure as if you are on an hosted server (by ftp or sftp) :cane:.

Or buy the joomla pack for blueonyx at solarspeed ... but you have a web server so you can install wath you want on it like a web hoster.

That actually sounds pretty easy. I wasn't sure if I was going to have to do a bunch of updates for PHP or apache or anything. I'll give it a shot. Thanks!

Scott

I have just to say that I have payed for the php update pack and I add Json compatibility : but the cobalts that I have here are for the developpment team (test of a lot of Web api/cms/code/... and developpement of ours).

Ebay, craigslist... I don't know any where else but pretty much you will defenatly get one from ebay.

looks like http://www.raqport.com/ has some as well

I got mine on ebay for about 120 shipped.:D

I can't believe people are still using these... I haven't seen one in production since like 2002 when my colo provider at the time was using them for DNS.

I can't believe people are still using these... I haven't seen one in production since like 2002 when my colo provider at the time was using them for DNS.

The raq XTR's are p3 based and some have dual processors up to 1.3ghz. They can handle 50+ basic/flat site with 10 to 20 email users per site without a problem. More than enough for todays needs. The (even) older raq4's and below are not really worth using unless you plan to just run one or a few small sites or perhaps just email.

I don't use them anymore but it is not for lack of hardware power or software features (the front end is excellent!). For me, the decision to migrate was due to the lack of security updates and I constantly found myself forcing patches to work or in some cases, completely upgrading parts of the server with non-cobalt software. A lot of work for such old servers...

They were all eBayed a few years back. I sort of miss them tho...