Thanks for your help. I will go with the Dell system probably the T110 system. The thing is I am more of a consultant more then I am a full time employee so if anything goes wrong it will be nice for me or them to call dell if a hard drive fails or memory goes bad. I doubt that I will need their services and I might even be fine with building my own (the current server I built was running 24/7 for about 5 years) but I want that peace of mind. I did spec out the dell T110 and building my own and the dell system is about 600 bucks more but comes with support. Not only this but I do not have to waste a day getting everything assembled and working on the software. On Tue, Apr 8, 2014 at 6:43 AM, Stephen Partington wrote: > This is a somewhat risky combination to put on the same server. The reason > being you now have your entire company exposed to the outside world. An > option would be to use a VM solution on the bare metal and then you could > separate your Services and even use different OS's for each based on needs. > as for the server i would probably look at the Dell T110 and T320 as they > are both for sale at 600 and under to start and can scale very nicely for a > smaller business. and you can leverage Dell support and get replacement > parts and materials quite fast. > > > On Tue, Apr 8, 2014 at 12:27 AM, Nadim Hoque wrote: > >> The server will start out as a domain controller/file server but I might >> expand to possibly a web server as well. >> >> >> On Mon, Apr 7, 2014 at 8:00 PM, David Schwartz < >> newsletters@thetoolwiz.com> wrote: >> >>> What's the server for? >>> >>> Just an in-house file server? >>> >>> Or does it need to be a web server with external / public access? >>> >>> -David >>> >>> >>> >>> On Apr 7, 2014, at 7:01 PM, Nadim Hoque wrote: >>> >>> > I just want to get your experiences regarding server purchases. The >>> server is meant for a small business with about 10+ people and does not >>> need to be utilized 24/7. I was wondering if I should build my own or go >>> with and OEM such as dell. I would consider HP but I do like Dell's direct >>> to purchase/customization but I am free for suggestions. I was thinking an >>> Xeon E3 quad core, about 8gb of ram, 4 500gb hard drives and that should be >>> about it. I am thinking about building my own because a lot of the server >>> boards come with IPMI support and the Dell model I was looking at was the >>> T1102 which does not inlcude IPMI what so ever. Thanks for taking the time. >>> > >>> > -- >>> > Nadim Hoque >>> > >>> >>> --------------------------------------------------- >>> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >>> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >>> http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> Nadim Hoque >> Systems Support Analyst >> Engineering Technical Services >> Arizona State University >> Cell: 480-518-6235 >> >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> > > > > -- > A mouse trap, placed on top of your alarm clock, will prevent you from > rolling over and going back to sleep after you hit the snooze button. > > Stephen > > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > -- Nadim Hoque Systems Support Analyst Engineering Technical Services Arizona State University Cell: 480-518-6235