[TriLUG] 1u rack server

Mike Johnson mike at enoch.org
Fri Feb 6 13:24:35 EST 2004


Jon Carnes [jonc at nc.rr.com] wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-02-06 at 12:16, spain at ncssm.edu wrote:
> > I'm looking for a good deal for some 1U rackservers to be webservers for
> > about 100 sites.. anybody have any good deals or know a good source for
> > equipment?
> >  
> > 
> With that number, Dell will probably be willing to deal with you. When I
> was at former employeer, Dell cut us some sweet deals... and all we
> ordered were about 50 servers/year.

Yeah, I'd say Dell or IBM.  Anyone will cut you a good deal on that many
systems.  Also be sure and ask about support options (onsite and such)
as well as initial software loads.  I imagine you'll want them all
loaded the same.

Mike
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