[Asterisk-Users] ultra-cheap asterisk box

[Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk]

this is $318 + taxes. my prices included two ISDN cards and 24% vat.
and dell 'servers' aren't more 'servers' than my home-built servers - at 
least not the low-end ones.

roy

Paul Mahler wrote:

>I have a Dell 400sc sever on order. It will be shipped on the 27th. It is a
>2.4GHz P4 with a 533 MHz front side bus, a 40GB disk, 128MB of memory, sound
>card, ethernet, and year of on-site next day maintenance. 
>
>It is $318 delivered after rebates. Yes, $318.  
>
>This is a real server, by the way, not a desktop machine. It also makes NO
>noise. I can't hear a thing with my ear right next to it. 
>
>Why would you even THINK about getting anything else? 
>
>Paul
>
>Paul Mahler 
>mail:pmahler at signate.com
>phone: 650.207.9855
>fax: 877.408.0105
>
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>[mailto:asterisk-users-admin at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Chris Albertson
>Sent: Thursday, January 15, 2004 9:32 AM
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>Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] ultra-cheap asterisk box
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>I'm looking to do about the same thing, build very low cost
>systems.  (I'm looking at putting Asterisk at some
>non-profit organizations.)   but one thing you can't make
>a compromise on is reliabilty.  It has to work and keep working
>for years to come.  I was able to keep the price of a new PC
>to about $300 ad still use an ASUS mainboard and an AMD XP2600+
>The trick is to add absolutly nothing not needed.  No floppy,
>no CDROM so you can run off a 200W P/S.  Next I'll experiment
>with a notebook sized IDE disk drives and to see if _underclocking_
>the CPU reduces it's power comsumption enough that we can save
>one fan.
>
>Ideally Asterisk will be ported one day to Linux/ARM or some
>other very low cost platform.  for VOIP you do not need the
>PCI slots.  In theory Asterisk could run on a Lynksys router
>box with re-flashed EEPROM.  After all Lynksys' latest wireless
>router runs Linux inside
>
>Low cost to me means "low total cost of ownership"  To get this
>I don't think buying the lowest priced parts is the way to go.
>I want quality mainboard, and a quality power supply and, this
>is importernt:  A low internal case temperature.  for this reason
>I'll spend the extra $50 to go with Antec cases and ASUS mainboards
>over the generic ones.
>
>What I'm finding is that the PCs are so cheap that the cost of
>electric power to run them is now a large part of the cost.
>(assume 0.20/kwh times 200W times 365 days = $350.  So you
>pay for the PC again every year in electric power to run it.
>Worse.  In an office with airconditioning _all_ of that PC's
>200W goes to heat and your A/C unit will use about 220W of
>power to remove that 200W of heat.)
>and at a small office they will not have a server room so noise
>from the fan is an issue.
>
>--- Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk <roy at karlsbakk.net> wrote:
>  
>
>>hi all
>>
>>what about this...
>>I just put together a box on a web shop (komplett.no) that will cost
>>me
>>NOK ~1850 (¤ 216) plus a small ¤50 drive and cables, so say ¤300.
>>This
>>consists of a cheap MB with a duron 1400, 256MB SDRAM and two HFC-PCI
>>cards (if capijod will finish off the zaptel-driver soon). This is
>>all
>>in a cheap PC case.
>>
>>What do you think? Should this be doable? as a product? With only IP
>>phones and potentially a fax solution? any ideas?
>>
>>thanks
>>
>>roy
>>
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