Are dell 2950 iii still worth it?

Mynight · 13 May 2014 at 11:55

Found a bargain (well I think);

2 x 3.0ghz quad core x5450
12gb ram
2x 73gb 15k sas
Dual psu
Perc 6/i

For £180.

Basically I'm just looking for a server to learn how to manage my own dedicated as I'm getting to the stage where my vps is getting a bit tight on resources.

I would assume this is more powerful than my vps anyway and as such may be a slight stepping stone. (2 cores on a Xeon e5 don't know which and 4gb ram).

Would this be a suitable platform to learn management on before I spend big money on the latest and greatest?

(Bandwidth is already sorted)

Mynight · 13 May 2014 at 15:19

I heard they can be quite noisy from searching up on them. Sure I can get over the noise.

I may as well go for it. Need to find a gpu for virtualisation as well at some point.

Good to hear they still do parts

Mynight · 13 May 2014 at 17:35

Hmm maybe I should water cool it then haha.

Right one question I'm completely googled out (obviously not using right keywords). The processors don't support EPT http://ark.intel.com/m/products/344...3_00-GHz-1333-MHz-FSB#@product/specifications

Is that going to cause an issue for vmware? primarily it will run osx as a shared vm eventually.

Any ideas?

EDIT:balls found out I can only virtualise 32bit machines without ept

Mynight · 13 May 2014 at 19:08

I do see what you're saying and I do agree. Reason I'm looking at cheap servers was ideally to get to grips with the software (which I guess I could do on my desktop for now) before splurging the big money for a big boy server later down the line.

At the moment my vps caters for a website and a mobile apps backend. I expect to grow this considerably and looking at dedicated server costs I could afford to buy my own at the same price as 12 months of hosting.

I'm looking for an intro into servers basically to see if I'm up to the job of running my own or I just pay to host elsewhere. Bandwidth isn't an issue which normally stops people considering own servers and there's multiple power sources where I plan on installing.

I believe I would also enjoy learning somthing new

Mynight · 14 May 2014 at 13:56

Won't be a garage job, it's being set up at the office which has multiple broadband lines and I think 3 different power sources so its about as stable as it will get (not cost to myself for now).

Main reason I am considering my own is the price for hosting dedicated after 12 months it will have paid for my own server so anything after that is wasted money in my opinion. If its that easy to manage a server that is.

Good idea about setting up in a vm to learn. I'll go with that for now to test the water

thank you.

Mynight · 14 May 2014 at 20:15

I may just stick with hosting it for now and learn via vm as suggested. If I find myself capable and I outgrow the low end dedicated as well I may revisit running my own in future.

Thanks for advise everyone