A server CPU question

[ToyHeartsFan]

You have a warranty on your servers? Luxury!

 

£18.5k a year, wow, what's that for? We have a synchronous 10Mb and run our remote backup, could based systems and IP phones over it no problems.

 

If you haven't noticed, I'm being a blatant troll. We are a 4 form primary, 2 nursery with over 1000 pupils and no I dont run everything on one server.

But that said, funding is tight, and despite what MS or sophos say, ideal world scenarios are exactly that.

 

On a side note, keeping a dual PSU, older inefficient CPU servers running 24/7 as a sophos server will get the eco mentalists fuming! ;-)

 

Woo holiday time

 

Well I dont think the 8 year old ex admin server is or any of the others now - waves bye bye to Tempus but it is a good idea that if anything is under warranty (which other than a handful of projectors it isn't) then it should be the servers...

 

Dual PSU no problem there our Elonex server has 3 psus and keeps my office nice and warm...

 

As eco as I like to be the electricity bill does not come out of my meagre ict budget and scrapping working hardware is hardly environmentally friendly. I've just managed to replace our 6 year old ict suite of 3.2Ghz Pentium D's with refurbished core2duos so that should keep the eco warriors happy (dont tell them I'm thinking of keeping some to replace the celerons).

 

18.5 is what lickit (our old head called them that not me) want to upgrade from 10 to 100 because they cant offer anything in between; we are quite heavy users our teachers stream a lot of youtube clips etc... and I think our internet connection will start to struggle when we have an online MIS so I have started looking at the options I think the one currently favoured by manglement is sticking our heads in a bucket of sand and hoping it all goes away. PS we use online backup for admin but I worked out that if we wanted to use it for curric as well a restore would take about 4 days on a 10Mb connection (assuming no one else was using it)...

 

What is this holiday u speak of I have never heard of such a thing now go get back in your server room