Re: [cobalt-users] Buying a Cobalt Server

[Jeff Lasman <blists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wednesday 24 December 2003 02:15 pm, Chris Blore wrote:

> I will soon be setting up a web server system in my home involving
> the linking of a number of servers as part of my home
> network to form this. I was seriously looking into purchasing a
> (followed by a few) Raq server(s) in order to host webpages
> and files. However, it appears that Cobalt servers are no longer in
> production and will therefore ceased to be
> supported in a certain amount of time. Is this true and are there any
> plans to produce further models in the range suitable for
> my application.

The Sun Cobalt RaQs and Qubes are server appliances; that is they're 
designed as turnkey "plug-in and run" ways to host websites.

You've heard correctly, the last of these is rapidly approach EOL 
(End-Of-Life).  Support from Sun has gotten "slow" for most servers for 
which it's still available, and will soon enough become non-existent.

There are other continuing support solutions available from some of us 
who post here, but frankly, I'm recommending to my clients that they 
move beyond the RaQs soon.

Unfortunately there are no other plug-in solutions, hardware and 
software integrated, that I know of to replace them.

I'm suggesting to many of my clients that they look at various "control 
panels" which can be added to vanilla Linux or FreeBSD servers to 
create hosting platforms, but before I could recommend something to you 
I'd like to know a bit about your experience level.

Happy holiday!

Jeff
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