Comments on: High-end Web Server for 2009 – Servers on a budget

By: COmputer Consulting

COmputer Consulting — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 16:13:22 +0000

With teh price of hardware so cheap, I am more in the mind of getting a small space in a datacenter and providing my own hardware.

By: SEO Executive

SEO Executive — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 04:09:21 +0000

Thanks for posting it. Good thing that you build your own server. good luck with that.

By: jestep

jestep — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 02:11:22 +0000

We were pretty much in the same boat. After spending several years on dedicated servers, we built our own.

We use corenap colocation, which is in Austin TX. I would recommend finding a colocation provider in your area. Definitely shop around and see what’s available, prices, redundancy, etc… Bandwidth is a major concern as it will be one of the major if not the biggest costs you will incur with colo hosting. You will also want one that offers remote reboot services, and one close enough that you can quickly drive to if something really fails.

Also, you will most likely want to use a 1U or 2U server instead of a 4U. If you are looking in the Tyan brand, they make some awesome 1U servers that come with everything but the CPU, RAM and Hard Drives. The B5372 or even the B5211 or B5191 make great web servers for colo hosting. They offer 2U models as well, if you need a better package. You would most likely want to add a hardware RAID card to any of these servers.

By: Brandon Eley

Brandon Eley — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 01:50:30 +0000

We have been leasing our dedicated servers, but your article got me thinking of building them instead. We don’t have a datacenter of our own (like most e-commerce retailers) so we would have to rely on a colo facility if we built our own servers.

Do you have any colo facilities you recommend? How do you handle hardware issues and redundancy? Does the colo facility replace hardware in the event of a failure (if you provide backup hardware)?

Thanks for the article… I didn’t know building a top-notch server could be so affordable!