Buying a FreeBSD with Raid PC server in London?

Mark Blackman tmb at maddog.u-net.com
Tue Jul 11 21:41:12 BST 2000


try http://www.gnd.com. They'll even install FreeBSD for you.

> 
> Hi,
> 
> I am  helping out on an academic  grant writeup:
> for web-serving - I am recommending FreeBSD 
> as the way to go.  
> 
> For a system located in London
> For pricing - could I get some rough estimated prices
> on the following and companies that would sell the
> following with a hardware service agreement?
> (all from one company so any technical difficulties
> have one contact)
> 
> ------------------
> 
> PC - > 500MHz CPU - 1 Gig RAM
> IDE hard-disk for FreeBSD to sit on(?).
> 
> External Raid Harddisk system for /usr/local 
> Web data/user area that would do 50 to 100 Gig 
> and allow hot swapping and expanding.  (anything 
> less for 2 to 3k? - I hear the mocking laughter 
> already :-) )  I know 50 Gig Hard-disks are going
> under a 1k now - not sure how much the extra for
> the RAID is.
> 
> Juke Box backup tape system that could cope with
> 90 Gig of uncompressable data.  What software is
> good for this type of thing - flexible for creating
> permanent archives/disaster recovery backups and 
> 
> (I take if having the Jukebox tape backup system
> and Raid on different SCSI cards would be more
> optimal?)
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Lachlan
> 
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