Re: [SLUG] Long term availability

From: steve szmidt (steve@szmidt.org)
Date: Mon Jul 14 2008 - 15:11:08 EDT


On Monday 14 July 2008, Larry Brown wrote:
> Gentlemen (and ladies..),
>
> Does anyone on the group manage large numbers of servers for business
> purposes? I'm looking for reasonably priced mid tier systems (dual
> processor with dual or quad core processors) that not only stand up in a
> server farm atmosphere but are available in the identical configuration
> for at least 5 years. This may be OT in the exception that they will of
> course all be running Fedora Linux.
>
> Larry

I always use/recommend SuperMicro as one of the most reliable h/w available.
Every system we ship is from them. Can't really recall one failing in over
ten years. Though we usually don't manage them directly.

-- 

Steve Szmidt

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