Well, that's what VISI charges, also. $195/month for 5U space. 2 2U machines would cost considerably more than one full tower on its side. (5U in height). That config is always an option if the business really grows. Month-to-month costs would run about $400/month with _no_ business at all, which I can afford out of pocket from just extra cash at my current job. If the website needs that much power, than I'm okay. If it doesn't, then I'm still okay. I'm young, and I can take a risk or two. :) If it does well, I can put off upgrading (at least for a bit), which would make me happy. :) Nick Reinking adamm at sihope.com, on 09/19/2000 04:41:32 PM To: tclug-list at mn-linux.org @ PMDF cc: Subject: Re: [TCLUG:21429] Server recommendations We'd charge you $199 / month for 5U of space, whatever you want to do with it. That's 2 2U boxes plus a 250VA 1U APC (just long enough for the generator to kick in...ahh...). My thinking is that if you have a website that demands that much power, you should be making enough money to support the hardware and colo costs. If that's not the case then there's something wrong with your business model. Adam Maloney Systems Administrator Sihope Communications On Tue, 19 Sep 2000 Nick.T.Reinking at supervalu.com wrote: > The ServerWorks chipset is quite a beast, also, providing > the kind of bandwidth that you would see on a Sun box. All > in all, it provides 800MB/sec of aggregate PCI bus bandwidth. > > Intel is pretty impressed with it, too. It provides a higher throughput, > and lower latency, than any Intel chipset (RDRAM, SDRAM, single > or dual channel). Even Intel is adopting it in a future 4-way CPU/memory > configuration. (ala Profusion) > > In addition, monitoring chips on the motherboard can provide info about: > All CPU temps > System temps > Chassis intrusion > 4 voltage input monitors > 4 fan-speed monitors > (I don't know if the OS can see that, tho) > > Also, the reason why I'm not clustering is this: > It costs $195 per machine for colocation - saving $500 by clustering > two smaller machines would be gobbled up quite quickly by > colocation costs. :( > > Nick Reinking > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: tclug-list-unsubscribe at mn-linux.org For additional commands, e-mail: tclug-list-help at mn-linux.org -------------- next part -------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: tclug-list-unsubscribe at mn-linux.org For additional commands, e-mail: tclug-list-help at mn-linux.org