A possible reason to prefer an open source server...

[Christopher Chisholm]

woah, hang on, back it up... i think i speak for all of us when i 
wonder, what's wrong with having unprotected hooker sex?

... and that's the story of how i got banned from the GNHLUG.

-chris :-D


Thomas Charron wrote:
>   Generally, I've had different experiences with Dell servers.  
> Typically, they work very well, and Dell themselves tends to solve 
> problems fairly well.
>
>   Now, in defence, you got the cheapest of the cheapcheapcheap servers 
> that Dell sells.  If this server is supposed to be standalone, and 
> buisness critical, not having redudency is like having unprotected sex 
> with hookers.
>
>   Thomas
>
> On 7/10/06, *hewitt_tech* <hewitt_tech at comcast.net 
> <mailto:hewitt_tech at comcast.net>> wrote:
>
>     I have a very nice customer that's been putting up with some
>     amazingly bad luck with a Dell SC430 server. 90 days after I
>     installed it the server decided to flash all it's LEDs and become
>     unavailable. Dell responded by replacing the motherboard, power
>     supply, CPU and hard drive. 5 weeks later the SATA hard drive had
>     a stroke and was completely lost. This morning I get a call that
>     "the server is down". I arrive on site within 5 minutes to find
>     that indeed the server is down. The LED on the motherboard is lit,
>     the front panel shows the ethernet icon (and the ethernet LEDs are
>     blinking) but otherwise the machine is down. Dell tech support
>     asks me to pull the memory to see if there are any beep codes
>     (nothing). They have me pull the CPU and reseat it (nothing). The
>     power button has an LED that would normally be green but is amber
>     which according to Dell technical support means that the system is
>     in standby mode. Nothing works to get the system to boot or POST.
>     They are now in the process of sending motherboard, CPU, power
>     supply out tomorrow morning.
>      
>     But the interesting part of this is that the customer wanted
>     Exchange server to centralize their email, contacts and schedules.
>     With the server down, the email clients don't work and they can't
>     access any of the messages stored on the server (of course). Bill
>     Sconce and I just set up an Open Source file server for a client
>     but a key feature is that the clients aren't controlled by the
>     server as they would be in a MIcrosoft environment.
>      
>     When the customer's server is available again I'm going to
>     de-centralize their email and set up batch jobs on each
>     workstation to copy their email back to the server for archiving
>     purposes.
>      
>     This would have been an academic exercise if the Dell server had
>     actually been able to function for more than a few weeks at a time.
>      
>     -Alex
>      
>
>
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