I've had good luck with Supermicro 1U servers - run two or more of them
and it's easy to turn them into a high-available cluster.
https://www.rackmountsetc.com/ has been pretty good to me when it comes
to configuring & assembling Supermicro components (and suggesting
specific configurations). You might also look into Ganeti as a cluster
management package (open source, originated at google for internal
use). Same horsepower & quality as a Dell or HP server, at a
considerably lower price.
I've been running Debian this way, in a data center, for at least a
decade. (Note: I'm seriously considering migrating from Debian for our
next refresh - I really don't like systemd - might go all the way to BSD
or an OpenSolaris distro.)
One other alternative: A lot of people seem to swear by Mac Minis as
servers. They're already BSD under the hood, and I've run all kinds of
Linux distros on Macs, under virtualization. You should be able to run
Debian directly, though I've never tried it.
Miles Fidelman
On 6/26/2020 1:34 PM, echo test wrote:
Hello,
First of all, please don't ask me why I simply don't want to use aws
or gcp.
Then, I want to build a small data center for my company for hosting
a web app and a mail server. It's the first time I'm going to buy
some hardware for this. I tried looking for it on the web in order to
compare them but it seems that hardware vendors never want to talk
about Debian on their websites.
Seriously, I prefer using my money for donating to the Debian
foundation than having to pay for Ubuntu or Red Hat Enterprise
because I love Debian and ...
So, I want to know if It's a good idea to try using Debian in an
enterprise context, with hardwares like Dell EMC PowerEdge or Lenovo
ThinkCenter which seems to never mention that they support Debian.
What kind of issues can I encounter with such hardwares except simple
cases like having to install missing drivers with some already
available firmwares.
Can you give me some alternative hardwares in case this idea may take
me to much time to solve ?
Note: I will need some RAID solution hard or soft.
Sorry if my English is bad, it's not my mother language
Thank you.
--
In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice.
In practice, there is. .... Yogi Berra
Theory is when you know everything but nothing works.
Practice is when everything works but no one knows why.
In our lab, theory and practice are combined:
nothing works and no one knows why. ... unknown
