{"id":390,"date":"2007-12-20T21:04:07","date_gmt":"2007-12-21T02:04:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/2007\/12\/20\/serverama\/"},"modified":"2007-12-20T21:04:07","modified_gmt":"2007-12-21T02:04:07","slug":"serverama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/2007\/12\/20\/serverama\/","title":{"rendered":"Serverama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been itching to start up a Boston-based dedicated server company. There&#8217;s surprisingly few options. As I dig around I&#8217;ve found a few that exist, but they&#8217;re practically unheard of. I want to start one up and do some good marketing. Name recognition is pretty big when it comes to dedicated servers. However, none of the people I&#8217;ve talked to so far (my mom) has been willing to give me the ~$100,000 start up capital I&#8217;d need.<\/p>\n<p>I have slightly different plans for furnishing the racks I&#8217;d want in a colocation center, but there are plenty of good deals to be had on eBay, in case anyone&#8217;s in the server market.<\/p>\n<ul>\n    <li>1U Dell, dual 3 GHz Xeons, 1 GB RAM, 73 GB SCSI (10K RPM). <a href=\"http:\/\/cgi.ebay.com\/Dell-PowerEdge-1750-Dual-3GHz-1GB-73GB-Server-90-Day_W0QQitemZ250198039776QQihZ015QQcategoryZ51226QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem\">$485 + $25 shipping<\/a>.<\/li>\n    <li>If you&#8217;d prefer disk space over disk speed, there are also 1U SuperMicro machines, a 2.8 GHz Xeon (dual-capable, but not so equipped), 2 GB RAM, and a pair of 250 GB disks. <a href=\"http:\/\/cgi.ebay.com\/SUPERMICRO-1U-Server-XEON-2-8GHz-2GB-2x-250GB-RAID_W0QQitemZ230203808628QQihZ013QQcategoryZ1484QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem\">About $400<\/a> shipped.<\/li>\n    <li>Comparatively expensive, but <a href=\"http:\/\/cgi.ebay.com\/Dell-PowerEdge-1750-Dual-3-2GHz-4GB-3x-146GB-Raid_W0QQitemZ250198048768QQihZ015QQcategoryZ51226QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem\">$1500 buys<\/a> dual 3.2 GHz Xeons, 4 GB RAM, and 3x 146 GB SCSI disks.<\/li>\n    <li><a href=\"http:\/\/cgi.ebay.com\/Dell-PowerEdge-2950-2-X5355-Quad-Core-16GB-6-146GB-15K_W0QQitemZ180193482620QQihZ008QQcategoryZ51227QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem\">Not cheap at all<\/a>, but dual quad-core processor, 16 GB of RAM, and 6x 146 GB disks is my type of machine! $5375 if you&#8217;ve got the cash burning a hole in your pocket&#8230; (It looks like these processors support VT virtualization, so you can run something like <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Xen\">Xen <\/a>on it and host multiple virtual machines, Windows or Linux, without problems.<\/li>\n    <li>Dual 3.2 GHz Xeons, 4GB RAM, and a pair of 750 GB disks? <a href=\"http:\/\/cgi.ebay.com\/Dell-SC1425-Dual-Xeon-3-2GHZ-4GB-1500GB-RAID-1850-1750_W0QQitemZ150196704573QQihZ005QQcategoryZ51226QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem\">$1277+58<\/a> seems like a pretty good deal!<\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been itching to start up a Boston-based dedicated server company. There&#8217;s surprisingly few options. As I dig around I&#8217;ve found a few that exist, but they&#8217;re practically unheard of. I want to start one up and do some good &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/2007\/12\/20\/serverama\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers","category-materialism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}