[WEB4LIB] Web Server Inquiry

[Dan Lester]

At 02:44 PM 3/10/99 -0800, Eric Nudell wrote:
>We are looking for a web server in the $12,000 range. We have narrowed
>our list to the following three servers -
>
>        Dell PowerEdge 6300
>        Gateway ALR 9200
>        Micron NetFRAME NF6201


We run O'Reilly Website under NT4 on similar boxes....one is an earlier 
model of Micron and others are HP.  Servers from either one are built like 
battleships and have caused no problems in years of service.  All new 
computers we've bought in the last six years are Microns (except for some 
HP servers and a Sun Enterprise 3000), and they just run forever.

HP and Micron both have good support, should you need it, though you 
probably won't.  Of course for twelve grand you should get a really loaded 
box with all the goodies.  Consider hot swappable disks, RAID, two 
processors, and more RAM than you ever think you'll need.

cheers

dan




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