[Gllug] Cheap rackmount servers

[Lucian]

On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 3:40 PM, - Tethys <tethys at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 2:12 PM, Lucian <lucian at lastdot.org> wrote:
>
>> Do you happen to know some providers of cheap rackmount servers? Dell
>> etc are a bit too much for my budget.
>
> I'm afraid I'm going to have to go with the others that are telling
> you cheap is not what you want here. Cheap implies less reliable
> components (whether you choose to believe it or not). Rackmount
> implies it's going to be in a remote datacentre somewhere. Neither of
> those two statements are absolutes, but they're both pretty accurate
> in the real world. The cost of maintenance when a remotely located
> machine fails will dwarf anything you save by getting a cheap machine
> to start with. True, most "enterprise class" hardware is obscenely
> overpriced for what you get, and isn't usually good value. But it's
> also true that the other end of the scale gives you very poor quality,
> and will probably cost you more in the long run[1]. I'd suggest aiming
> for somewhere in the middle. I've always been happy with DNUK:
>
> https://secure.dnuk.com/store/servers-rackmount-1u.php
>
> Tet
>
> [1] Unless you treat them as disposable and simply have enough of them
> that redundancy makes up for everything else. Google proved that to be
> a winning strategy.
>
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Agreed, that you can't really have good and cheap at the same time.
Will have to give this more thought.

Thanks for your reply.
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