Recommendations for a home (vm) server

[Dave Hall]

Try staticice.com.au

On 22/06/12 06:03, Stephen Rees-Carter wrote:
> Thanks David, sounds like that could be what I'm after. Do you know a
> good place to get one? :)
>
> Thanks,
> ~Stephen
>
> On 22 June 2012 00:31, David Shawcross<david.sh at wcross.info>  wrote:
>> HP Proliant N40L approx $260 with 4 bays you can fill with four 2-3GB drives. Max out the memory and runs Ubuntu 12.04 with capacity to spare.
>>
>> Best regards,
>>
>> David
>>
>> On 21/06/2012, at 9:03 PM, Stephen Rees-Carter<stephen at rees-carter.net>  wrote:
>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> My work has just given me $1,000 to spend on a new home server machine
>>> which I intend to run as a virtual machine host, either as 12.04
>>> Virtualbox headless or ESXi.
>>> But the only hardware I've bought in the last 4 years has been two
>>> Lenovo laptops and a cheap Toshiba for my wife, so I'm a bit out of
>>> the loop for what's good/bad on the market in terms of desktops and
>>> home servers.
>>>
>>> So I was hoping that you guys could help me out...
>>>
>>> Since it's going to be a VM host, I'm after something with decent
>>> specs, lots of RAM, and multiple large disks.
>>> Also no wacky hardware that Ubuntu doesn't support. My budget is max $1,000.
>>>
>>> Can anyone recommend a brand/model or at least point me in the right direction?
>>>
>>> Thanks in advance,
>>> ~Stephen
>>>
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>>>
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