RE: [cobalt-users] Any advice before buying a RaQ550?

["Peter Masloch" <peter@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

You could buy the nice new 1U Server from SUN and then
install the software from Covalent for your needs:
http://www.covalent.net


> At 09:52 PM 6/6/2002 +0200, Peter Kiil wrote:
> >I'm very close to buying my first Cobalt server. I'm 
> starting a small 
> >hosting business with 2 of my friends and we decided to buy 
> a RaQ since 
> >it seems to cover our needs pretty well.
> >
> >We decided on the RaQ4, but a few days later the RaQ550 was 
> announced. 
> >After comparing specs and price we decided to buy a RaQ550. 
> So here's 
> >my simple
> >question: Are we paying to be Crash Test Dummies or is the 
> RaQ550 ok even
> >though it's a pretty new product? Anyone tested it yet? 
> Anyone words of
> >advice?
> >
> >No price comments please. I know we can get a Linuxbox cheaper but 
> >that's not what we want.
> 
> Don't do it. I'm not sure that I regret buying our raq's 
> since we got quite 
> a bit of use out of them before Sun bought the company and 
> ruined it, but 
> we sure won't be buying any more. Without the excellent 
> support that we 
> used to get from Cobalt, the raq's are becoming progressively 
> less useful. 
> We're putting new sites on Plesk and migrating existing 
> clients whenever a 
> reasonable excuse comes up.
> 
> If you don't know how to run unix, either hire someone who 
> does, or give up 
> the idea of running servers. Stuff like Cobalt/Plesk is great 
> for giving 
> the client a gui to make minor changes himself, but the server 
> administrator must understand the underlying infrastructure. 
> If there's 
> nobody in the company that can run the server, you'll be 
> screwed when it breaks.
> 
> 
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