On Fri, Jan 09, 2004 at 07:39:19AM -0800, Jimmy Wales wrote:
Gabriel Wicke wrote:
otherwise rackmount 1U: Dell PowerEdge 650 Intel Pentium 4, 2.4GHz, 512K, 533MHz, with Floppy /CDROM 1.0GB DDR,266MHZ,2X512MB DIMM Price:$1,098.00
(I was unable to replicate your price. I get $1498 for this configuration, or $1298 for a Celeron 2.0.)
Very interesting. Earlier I said rack space is not an issue, but we are constrained to rackmount servers.
Replicating as close I can the configuration you have above, I find:
Silicon Mechanics - $1179 P4 2.6, $1038 Celeron 2.4 - non-ECC ram Penguin Computing - $1211 P4 2.66, $1102 Celeron 2.7 - ECC ram
(Penguin doesn't have the slower processors.)
Lots and lots of ram is usually good for webserving, though? (Although I guess it's much more important for the squids?)
Dell does not include Rails by default. SM and PC do. You've to add that to the Dell price listed above. 179$ for Dell boxes.
The comparable SM box (SM-1151A, 2,6GHz P4, 2*512MB RAM, Seagate 40GB, no CD, Rack mount kit, 3yr warranty) is at $1104 http://www.siliconmechanics.com/i1158/p4-server.php
JeLuF