Help with server please! Running Sage Line 50

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Hi guys,

From a previous thread have boiled server choice down to an upgraded HP ML110 G6, with 8GB Ram and 2 x 1TB ENT hardrives.

Server will be running Sage Line 50 Professional with 4 end users at an office 100 miles from where the server will be setup.

My brother in laws mate quoted him £3000 + for this, but from what i gather he's just trying it on.

HP Server is going to cost around £400 after upgrades. What else will he need and aprox costs?

Please!!
 
He's working from home, with only limited visits to the office.

- Business internet
- Routers, wont internet provider provide them?
- Firewall, probably noobish but are talking a phyical firewall or virtual one like windows firewall
- VPN tunnel?
 
Dam this seems pretty complicated. Hes got someone to setup it all up, im just trying to source/build a server. Im asssuming hell end up getting professional help when setting up. He's not the IT type so trying to help as much as i can.

Makes sense housing server at the office and him connecting from home.

So essenatially providing he gets a decent business internet provider and something like the Cisco ASA5505 (is this at both ends?) he will be pretty much set on the hardware side?

The Cisko also does do VPN? and im assuming VPM is for security?
 
So is the £3000 plus he was quoted really that out there? considering the price of 2 x Cisco ASA5505. That would have included full setup as well.
 
Rob7865 said:
Why not put a extra Desktop PC in the Office and your bother Remote onto that either using MS Remote Desktop or a Logmein derivative?
This will be much cheaper and quicker then a VPN solution
Trying to pull data from Sage across a homeset VPN will not make for good working!

Rob
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That sounds pretty cost effective. So have the router networked in house all at the office, negating the need of an expesnive Cisco router/VPM and possibly even the business internet?
 
Should point out this is essentially a new business he's setting up (in the same field as his last venture) so everything from scratch including buying a version of SBS

edscdk said:
a server for sage pro and 5 users?

I assume there is no server currently so its a tiny business,

I would get a cheap server from dell with 500 /1tb mirrored SATA drives for about £900 with windows 7 on, stick on acronis ~80 and two external 1tb USB drives £60 each...
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Wouldnt the HP ML110 G6, which comes to around £400 after upgrades, suffice? considering the small scale of the business.
 
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edscdk said:
my guess on price was a TOTAL guess (ever even checked), anything will do, jsut make sure what ever setup you use has mirrored drives...! - windows 7 will do for upto 10 users id say (so no sbs needed) stick in 4 gb of ram as its so cheap

DONT let them use what ever machine you decide is a server as a workstation! - a lot of people do this....
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OK so in layman's terms: -

- HP ML110 G6 Server - Setup in office
- Windows 7 Professional
- 2 x 1TB in Raid 1 plus 2 x 1TB USB Drives as Backup
- 4 x PC's in office + 1 x extra one as a Remote Desktop
- Fast broadban both ends, say Virgin Fibre 50MB+
 
Well for the time being can have my brother in law connected via the remote PC, and 1 other PC in the office connected. Further down the line they can buy more licences?
 
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