Dell Delivery - Lots of Boxes!
One of things that I have a love / hate relationship are servers. For the MD of a hosting company that's probably an odd thing to say.
I love the fact that we have so many.
I don't love the fact that they cost so much - the numbers involved get a bit silly when you buy as many as we do!
We get a lot of our hardware from Dell.
At the moment we are working on a project which needs quite a bit of hardware, so we're currently taking delivery from Dell by the van load.
We got a van load of servers today, so at lunchtime Paul Kelly, our CTO, took this photo of some of the boxes stacked up in our warehouse (that's another day's story!)
For the geekier types - you can probably work out that a lot of the smaller boxes are rail kits, while the bigger boxes are for rack mountable servers.
The photo was taken with a Nokia N95 if you are interested :)
Comments
From MY N95 at that ;)
Paul
Posted by: Paul Kelly | September 13, 2007 2:43 PM
Paul
Well it could have been taken with my N95 :)
Michele
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September 13, 2007 3:05 PM
I want one! :(
Posted by: Brian Kenny | September 13, 2007 3:36 PM
Wow - thats an impressive stack of hardware. What kind of comapny would need that amount of hardware and under what context?
Only if you are allowed say, of course.
Posted by: Peter Knight > EdenWeb | September 13, 2007 3:39 PM
Brian - if you want an empty box I can give you one, or were you referring to the n95? :)
Peter - most of those servers are for us. They aren't for a client :)
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September 13, 2007 6:33 PM
So when do I get to have my site hosted on those boxes??? :-)
Posted by: Jason Caldwell | September 13, 2007 9:57 PM
Jason
Heh
You're probably already hosted on similar hardware. I'd have to check with Paul :)
Michele
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September 13, 2007 10:08 PM
Michele - I was refering to the N95, impressive picture quality I must say. I heard the GPS was a bit touchy though.
Posted by: Brian Kenny | September 14, 2007 8:59 AM
Brian
Ah well now .. :)
I haven't played with the GPS enough yet
Michele
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September 14, 2007 9:40 AM
Brian,
yeah the GPS can be a bit finicky alright. That said, if you bought an earlier model with an older firmware it was very very slow. Both of ours have newer firmware and it's actually pretty good. That and Route66 for the N95 is quite usefull :)
Posted by: Paul Kelly | September 14, 2007 10:44 AM
Free N95 for top customers? :)
Posted by: James - Rebel Web | September 24, 2007 9:02 PM
@James - heh - you'd like that :)
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September 25, 2007 10:02 AM