Server Hardware Recommendations

[David J. Orman]

I like the Sun server lineup. I mostly run Solaris on them, but FreeBSD on a few (and works fine.) FreeBSD wouldn't be a supported OS, but you'd still have HW support.

David

----- Original Message -----
From: Matt Ruzicka <matt at frii.com>
Date: Monday, July 17, 2006 9:52 am
Subject: Server Hardware Recommendations

> I know this is a topic that could easily spawn a holy war, but 
> hopefully we 
> can all keep the constructive to a maximum. ;)
> 
> My company has been purchasing almost exclusively Supermicro 
> SuperServers 
> for our production FreeBSD server hardware for that last four years 
> or so. 
> Over all I'd say we've been quite happy with Supermicro from a 
> product 
> stand point, but recently we've been dealing with some odd hardware 
> issues.  I still have faith in their hardware, but some concerns 
> with 
> their support structure is causing us to reconsider our future 
> hardware 
> purchasing plans.
> 
> I was wondering what others are using for production FreeBSD server 
> hardware.  I'm most interested to see what manufacturers seem to be 
> rock 
> solid from a hardware and FreeBSD interaction perspective and also 
> have 
> solid support for those issues that come up from time to time.
> 
> Thanks for your time and I look forward to people's feedback.
> 
> Matt Ruzicka - Senior Systems Administrator
> Front Range Internet, Inc.
> matt at frii.net - (970) 212-0728
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