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Find a supermicro reseller and build your own. Back in the days when I ran my own servers (before virtual machines were so easy and cheap -- and I'm talking 10
by Yeri 12y ago
Find a supermicro reseller and build your own.
Back in the days when I ran my own servers (before virtual machines were so easy and cheap -- and I'm talking 10 years ago) all my servers were supermicro cases (and sometimes motherboards), and bought all the other components individually.
Definitely cheaper than a HP or whatever server.
- jameshk 12y agoI have tried to configure a server on newegg, but the price with the lowest end AMD Opteron or Intel Xeon was too high, and if I go consumer-grade the mobo's quality goes down allot.
- kevinday 12y agoI've had really good experiences with Amadi Systems as a Supermicro reseller. http://amadisystems.com/ http://amadisystems.com/ I've stopped buying Dell/HP entirely now, because the price of Supermicro's stuff is so much better and you don't get into warranty arguments like you do with HP about running non-approved OSes.
- jameshk 12y agoI'll check them out, thanks.
- kabdib 12y agoSupermicro systems are certainly cheaper. Their IPMI is terrible, but I've done remote installs of OSes over it, it's mostly just laggy and sucky to use. We haven't had much trouble with the actual hardware (about a one percent failure rate out of the box, and very few failures after that). Dells certainly have nicer management.