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[Anthony Ferrara]

I do all my shopping off of EBay.  I do only IBM
servers... I have 3 X335 (dual 1U P4 Xeon, Hardware
RAID 1 x2 SCSI), 2 X345 (Dual 1U P4 Xeon, Hardware
RAID 5 x6 SCSI drives), and am contemplating getting a
x336 (newer 335)...
--- Mitch Pirtle <mitch.pirtle at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 10/9/07, Anthony Ferrara <ircmaxell at yahoo.com>
> wrote:
> > Now, I paid $700 for the server, and $50 per
> month.
> 
> Tip o' the hat to you for getting that machine for
> $700, I don't think
> I can, with that configuration. But I haven't bought
> intel hardware
> since 1998, so you can't consider me current in "PC
> shopping".
> 
> > So, after 1 year, it saves me $500.  After that, I
> > save $1,200 per year by using my own hardware...
> > That's not a small amount...
> 
> I got a dual Athlon for $217/mo, and each year I
> retire it and upgrade
> to the next biggest thing - first dual Athlons, then
> dual Opterons,
> will most likely be 64-bit Opterons this spring when
> I make the
> switcheroo. And it costs me nothing, as I'm turning
> one server on
> while decommissioning the old. No way I'm getting
> that kind of
> hardware for $700/year.
> 
> For me, the difference is I'm not physically
> required to deal with
> making the switch, or managing hardware upgrades or
> maintenance. With
> commodity hardware this is a bigger effort than the
> expensive
> commercial stuff of yesteryear...
> 
> Factor in the time you spend doing it yourself, and
> then try to assign
> a value to your time - how important it would be if
> you could have
> spent that time doing something else. As a small
> business owner, that
> is a critical consideration as effort/time often
> outweigh cost. If it
> saves you time, chances are it will also allow you
> to make more money.
> 
> Feel free to tell me where you shop though! I got a
> stinky old HP
> (ubuntu) workstation at home that needs replacing
> :-)
> 
> -- Mitch
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