[wplug] HowTo - Spec out a Linux Server

[Ryan Brown]

Wow, surprised to hear that. It all comes down to the account managers you
have. I love Dell, all of our servers are Dells (both at work and my
personal side business). Support has been nothing but amazing with Dell. I
personally hate CDW, mainly because of our account rep trying to take us for
every penny that he could.

 

What specs were you looking at? You can get a dual xeon for less than $3k
with Dell. They run specials all the time. If you want to contact me off the
list I can put you in touch with our reps at Dell, JDMI, or HBS. 

 

Ryan

 

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[mailto:wplug-bounces+lists=tblive.com at wplug.org] On Behalf Of Gregsim
Sent: Thursday, December 01, 2005 9:30 PM
To: General user list
Subject: Re: [wplug] HowTo - Spec out a Linux Server

 

Hi Chris,

 

Boy, I appreciate this comment.  I have been frustrated with Dell myself.
They are always switching people and the pricing is like a car dealer - you
never know whether you have a fair price. 

 

I have a pretty decent Dell server with with Xeon 2.4 GHz processor running
Windows 2003 Server and I am serving web sites on IIS and mail on Smartmax.
I have to reboot at least weekly to clear up the memory leaks (or whatever
causes the handles to go up and the available memory to go down).  I want to
get a machine to offload the mail server because I think that might be the
source of the problem.  I would like to get a second new machine for LInux
and Postfix.  If you call Dell, they will put you into a $7K machine in a
heartbeat.  The machines that came up on CDW were less than $1K, but were
Celerons, probably not enough.  I just want a good basic reliable machine.
I put in a request to CDW to recommend something.  

 

Thanks again for the tip. 

 

Greg

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From: Chris <mailto:romano.chris at gmail.com>  Romano 

To: General user list <mailto:wplug at wplug.org>  

Sent: Thursday, December 01, 2005 10:56 AM

Subject: Re: [wplug] HowTo - Spec out a Linux Server

 

On 12/1/05, Matthew T. Engel <mengel at allegheny.edu> wrote: 


Also if anyone has experience with Dell,IBM or other linux server
vendor, I would be very interested to hear you experiences.


I can't help you with the NFS question but I do have some comments on the
vendors.

First, I never bought a machine from a vendor with linux installed.  I have
always ordered servers with no OS and installed linux myself.  Where I work
we have both Dells and HPs.  As far as hardware support in the OS and
machine reliability goes, I have never really had any problems.  Now, for
service and support ... big problem.  I will NEVER order another dell server
again.  Long story short ... I ordered two identical machines and they
forgot the CD-Roms.  Not really a big problem, they nevered billed me for
them. I should have caught that.  I call and tried to purchase two CD-Roms
... After 3+ hours, 3 ticket numbers, and talking to 8+ people, I gave up.
It should not be that hard to buy parts.  From now on I only order servers
through CDW.  I have an account manager that I talk to on a regular basis
and if I have a problem I talk to him.  I have talked to other IT Managers
and most have had the same experice with Dell.  We are a small company so,
you might have a different experience or have an account manager there.

Hope that helps,
Chris


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