Can you *build* a server?

[Butters]

Really on a tight budget and need a server plus SBS2k3 all for £600 really. Ideally, less, much less.

Is it possible to 'build' a machine that would compare to a Dell Poweredge par example?

 

[Butters]

I dont think you would get something like a poweredge for £600-, you could try ebay or even if you have some old friends or a son to enquire at a school to see if they have an old server they can parse with, i did that and payed them £25 for a old file server which was good considering it had a Pentium 3 and 512mb of ram.

yes you can, I just spec'd two PowerEdge Servers for just over £500 without SBS and £695 with SBS but the server wasn't 'as' good as the one without SBS.

given that sbs2003 alone costs around £400 for the standard edition with 5 user licence (going by a quick google) or over £1k for the premium edition with 5 client licences, you probably wont see much change from £600!

SBS 2K3 RC2 is £285 with 5 user CALs

 

[Butters]

Looking after 4 blokes in an office. Their 'My Docs' Folders on the server, email (exchange ideally) and interweb.