Off Topic Server recommendations

[Nadim Hoque]

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 <cryptworks at gmail.com>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 <nadimhoque at gmail.com> 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 at 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 <nadimhoque at gmail.com> 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
>>> >
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>> Nadim Hoque
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