Comments on: Do you rely on used/commodity branch servers? http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/do-you-rely-on-usedcommodity-branch-servers/ Sun, 19 May 2013 03:14:28 +0000 hourly 1 By: The unsung perils of Linux love and penny pinching - Enterprise IT Watch Blog http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/do-you-rely-on-usedcommodity-branch-servers/#comment-81070 The unsung perils of Linux love and penny pinching - Enterprise IT Watch Blog Wed, 01 Sep 2010 18:55:36 +0000 #comment-81070 [...] Trust my e-mail security and firewall to a device that I may or may not be able to access, that may or may not fail at a moment’s notice, and that my users may or may not be trying to load up solitaire on? No, thank you. But I decided to poll the ITKnowledgeExchange.com community for their thoughts, and as usual there were several thoughtful replies. [...]

]]> By: hendryb http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/do-you-rely-on-usedcommodity-branch-servers/#comment-81015 hendryb Tue, 31 Aug 2010 15:07:12 +0000 #comment-81015 There is nothing wrong with used/commodity hardware (computer) but I would make darn sure you have new/fresh disks because of MTBF (Mean Time Between Failure). A disk is guaranteed to fail but it is always a question of when. Memory shouldn’t fail if not subjected to power spikes and there is nothing wrong with using a 386 to power a linux server doing low level tasks like DNS or LDAP. PLUS, you can get a lot of mileage out of that old computer. So there ya’ go.

]]> By: jinteik http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/do-you-rely-on-usedcommodity-branch-servers/#comment-80961 jinteik Mon, 30 Aug 2010 15:40:15 +0000 #comment-80961 to me it is just not smart. The other day use a cheap way out by using a older version of pc to setup as an FTP server and they have their full configuration on it. next thing they know, the hard disk crash and that it. everything was gone and they didnt even have a backup or image to what they had done…it was a down time for them. not only that, after bring up another hard disk, they were left to wonder what they still had to configure as there was no configuration scrip too..

it is actually better to get a server to get things done as there is more safety using a real server rather than a pc server. reliability and performance is important for medium to enterprise environment and and with some warranty that comes with the hardware, it to me it will be great as anything goes wrong, we can just give the vendor a call to fix our problem.

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