At 09:15 PM 6/18/2002, you wrote:
At 09:03 PM 6/18/02 -0500, you wrote:Can anyone give me ideas (besides ebay) about where to buy a used or refurbished Qube3?Is there any practical benefit to 1 450 MHz machine over a 300 one for a small business with 10 ish workstations?thanksDo you want to use all the features that the Qube has? Are you looking for the web server, ftp, email server, and routing?At first, it will be a file server. Routing from the start. As I get things together, I'll set it up to host a small Internet site.
Personally I think you would be better off using another machine for file serving. Won't the connected computers have bigger hard drives than the Qube? Routing it will do and serve the web site it will do. You would be best looking at the place that Dan keeps yelling at everyone http://www.webhostingtalk.com/ for a machine. Still from what people say, you probably will find the best deal on a used machine on Ebay. I personally stay away from Ebay.
By the way. There are many units available to do the routing for under $200, as low as about $50. It depends if you already have a network and switch/hub. You could use a single port unit from Linksys, Netgear, DLink just to name a few. There one port units start around $50. Just put it between you internet connection and you switch/hub and your in business. I personally can't see using a box as a router, web server and file server. If the router goes out, you then have a problem with the web server and file server. If you start depending on the web server or email server and you fill up the file server or the router has a problem, why kill it all.