[TriLUG] Cheap Dell Server

[Turnpike Man]

I should have mentioned that my shop is a 10 person shop... but these folks
demand things work their way right away... they see server, they see $349, they
tell me that's what they want... then moan and whine when it doesn't perform! 
One of our applications sits on hot swap SCSI 10k, Raid 5 (perc2si), 1GB ram,
dual power supply and is a 700MB M$SQL database driven beast running on
SilverStream.  Fortunately I found a Dell PowerEdge 2400 (Love it, ran RH 7.2
very well for a short while before M$ was put on it for the 3rd party app.) in
refurb for a kickin' price, otherwise they would think one of these other
servers could run it.

But, I digress... after further though, this $349 deal would also make the
perfect piece of hardware for our corporate web server in a DMZ as it hardly
has any dynamics to it but a few database calls for the job listing area and
certainly isn't large when it comes to corporate websites.  Also, at that cost,
we could actually afford to have our webserver on a machine of its own in a DMZ
to begin with!  So I suppose there are uses for such machines!  ;)

*burning off the corporate steam*
David

--- Turnpike Man wrote:
> The people I work for are a perfect example of what is said here.  They think
> b/c it says server on the box, it can do the job... and they are SO wrong...
> and apparently I'm wrong for telling them otherwise!  another $0.02 to the
> kitty!
> 
> David M.
> 
> --- Kevin Flanagan wrote:
> >
> > If you have a desktop system, call it that, not a server.
> > 
> > 
> > I know that it comes off kind of snobbish at times, but don't expect a
> > desktop system with a server sticker to do the job of a server.  Call it
> > what it is, that's not to say that there isn't a market for this kind of
> > thing, but they are driving smaller businesses to be short sighted in
> > purchasing this kind of system when they really need a server with
> > higher end features.

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