[olug] New Email Address, Server inquiry....

[Rob Townley]

On 9/17/06, Mario Steele <nixmario at ruby-im.net> wrote:
> Hey All,
>
> This is Mario Steele, I ended up deciding that instead of relying on my
> trilake.net email address, and whatever Email Client I have available to
> read my OLUG stuff from, I decided to go with my other Domain Name, which is
> hooked directly into Google Mail's Beta Hosting for Domain Names, to get
> OLUG Stuff from.  So I am un-subscribing my previous email address, and
> strictly using this one for OLUG Stuff.
>
> Now, me and a friend are setting up some Server hosting for a few clients of
> ours, and we're looking into getting our hands on some server hardware.  I
> was wondering if anyone out there has some good suggestions on where to look
> for, or if someone has some, Rack Mount Servers, with RAID Card interfaces,
> that can run Windows 2003, and Ubuntu Linux on for some Hosting needs.  Any
> and all suggestions or offers are welcome!
>
> Thanks,
> Mario Steele
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i have been very happy with our purchases of used Compaq servers and
cabinets from jay at RebootTheUser.   Local and Linux run shop.

p.s. We have two Dell machines and one Compaq, the ease of maintenance
of firmware and device drivers of the 800MhZ Compaq blows away the
relatively new dual 2.8GhZ Xeon Dell.  Compaq provides one ISO
bootable image to update all the firmware and there is so many
different sets of firmware on a high-end server - system firmware,
raid firmware, embedded management firmware, and others.