I'm a beginner looking into buying my own hardware, any advice?
Hello WHT,
I am a beginner in the industry and was looking into colocation as I would generally prefer to own the hardware physically rather than renting it. I have decided the data centre, but don't really know where to begin! Basically, I am looking for a decent server that I can use to set up my shared hosting company on. I feel I would like to start with a basic server that is pretty cheap and has a reasonable amount of disk space and RAM, I would mainly like to use it to be able to learn more about servers in general before advancing on to more complex hardware. I'm not too clued up yet, but am on a budget and assuming that 1U would be good enough to begin with? All help and advice is much appreciated.
-OH