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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hi Chris,</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>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.
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>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. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Thanks again for the tip. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Greg</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
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style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=romano.chris@gmail.com href="mailto:romano.chris@gmail.com">Chris
Romano</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=wplug@wplug.org
href="mailto:wplug@wplug.org">General user list</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, December 01, 2005 10:56
AM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [wplug] HowTo - Spec out a
Linux Server</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>On 12/1/05, <B class=gmail_sendername>Matthew T. Engel</B>
<<A href="mailto:mengel@allegheny.edu">mengel@allegheny.edu</A>> wrote:
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if anyone has experience with Dell,IBM or other linux server<BR>vendor, I
would be very interested to hear you experiences.<BR></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR>I
can't help you with the NFS question but I do have some comments on the
vendors.<BR><BR>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.<BR><BR>Hope that
helps,<BR>Chris<BR>
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