Re: [cobalt-users] RAQ competitors

[Nikolas Samios <ns@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi everybody!

I think the main advantage of the VAs is their superior CPU and HDDs. I
always missed RAID in my RaQs. Furthermore, the VAs use much more standard
components than especially the RaQ1 and 2s. Maybe RaQ3 is equvivalent in
this point.

RaQs are great for getting things online without knowledge of Linux,
sendmail, apache etc... but as soon as you reach the possibilities of the
GUI (~2 days in my case :-)) maybe a bigger machine without the all-in-one
GUI is better.

Maybe I'll get one or two of these fancy cluster-cities... ;-)

Byebye,

Niko

"J. Masterson" wrote:

> > Too expensive on these servers.
> >
>
> > >
> > > http://www.valinux.com/  and http://www.valinux.com/store/
>
> Sure, for the high end ones. But our company is buying a Raq3i today for
> about $2700 bucks. It has a 13 gig HD, 128 RAM, and a 300 mhz AMD
> processor.
>
> VaLinux low end server is $2865 -- slightly more... and has a 6.4 gig HD
> (smaller), 128 megs ram (same), and an Intel Pentium III 500 mhz
> processor (faster). So it's comparable, really...
>
> Not sure if VaLinux has the extensive web-based tools for people without
> extensive syadmin knowledge, however...
>
> --
> John Masterson
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