[Gllug] Overpowered 1U server

[Garry Heaton]

About a year ago I built a 1U rackmount server with the following spec:

2 x Opteron 250/2.4Ghz			
Mobo: Tyan Thunder S2881G2NR			
8 x 512Mb PC3200 ECC 400Mhz			
4 x Maxline PlusIII 300Gb as 3/RAID 5 + 1 hot spare			
RAIDCore BC4852 card			
Chenbro RM1705 1U			
    Slimline CD-ROM			
    Slimline Floppy			
    Riser card for RAID controller			
    5 blowers
2 Heatsinks + fans			
CentOS 4.3 (64 bit)

The idea was to take advantage of Bytemark's cheap 1U colo deal but when the 
time came to move forward they had stopped offering colo. I recalled Black 
Cat offered something similar and was all set to go when they switched their 
pricing policy to emphasise power consumption over rackspace. Oh dear. This 
server wasn't exactly power efficient and would cost me twice as much to 
host as I originally budgeted.

Does anyone know of any other reasonably cheap colo deal which would 
accommodate this overspecified server. If not, it's brand new and I'm 
prepared to sell it for £2,500 and lose nearly £1,000 on what it cost me to 
put it together. It's all working properly and hasn't been used but I can't 
afford annual 2U colo rates.

Garry


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