Server Hardware Recommendations

[Arie Kachler]

We've been in business since 1996 and can only praise Dell servers. They 
used to be more expensive, but they are now very competitive in pricing. 
Our first server was a Dell, and it's still going! (only monitoring though).
We have about 200+ servers and have had only one troublesome server, 
which Dell replaced after two attempts to fix the problem without 
success. Out of those 200+ servers, we've had 3 Compaqs which were 
bought because of timing issues (Dell takes about a week to deliver a 
server), and all 3 Compaq servers have failed!
I can't say I have experience with other brands, but I do know that Dell 
servers are very reliable.
No, I don't work for Dell.

Hope my 2 cents help.



Matt Ruzicka wrote:
> 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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