Pictures of servers

[SgtM]

Anyone know of a good resource to get pictures of servers and/or computers for free? I need a couple to use on an advertisement for my company.

[ajmilton]

if you're trying to do something commercial, you'll have a lot less luck getting free pictures. also, "servers" and "computers" is _real_ generic. you got any specific type of case you're looking for? interior layouts? etc etc

[SgtM]

true, but you never know sometimes. I'm just looking for something general. Maybe I'll just take a few with my digi cam.. doesn't need to be very detailed or specific.

[Airbozo]

Like this:

http://images.google.com/images?q=server&sourceid=mozilla-search&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&sa=N&tab=wi

[DaveW]

Look for the Computer of the Week Thread. (http://www.thebestcasescenario.com/forum/showthread.php?t=4517)

Airbozo's been posting pics of servers for a while now.

-Dave

[Airbozo]

Look for the Computer of the Week Thread. (http://www.thebestcasescenario.com/forum/showthread.php?t=4517)

Airbozo's been posting pics of servers for a while now.

-Dave

And once things calm down a bit I will post more. Working on the supercomputer pics...

Last 3 days I have assembled and tested 32 1u supermicro dual xeon 12gb memory system, 8 dell 690's (just loading windows server 2003 x64 on em since dell will not support it) and 8 Octane 2's (full system setup and install).

I have never seen that much memory in one place. 192 sticks of 2gb memeory, 64 xeon procs and 64 500gb sata drives. Whew!


sgtm: If you are looking for something in particular I can probably find it... Hell in our archive we have images of systems from 1975 all the way to the present (not sure if I have access anymore but not that hard to get).

[SgtM]

eh, nothing in particular really, generic is fine with me, and definitely nothing that's branded. I also don't want to have to worry about getting in trouble if I use it for commercial purposes. I may just end up taking a few snapshots of some spare generic boxes I have laying around.

For those that don't know, the reason I want this is because I just started a web hosting company, www.mscomptech.com. I want to use the pictures in an advertisement I plan on placing.

[nil8]

You should easily be able to find some picks of 4u rackmount generic server boxes from IT wholesalers.
Standalones might be harder.
PC cases would be simple, it's called google.

[Zephik]

I have never seen that much memory in one place. 192 sticks of 2gb memeory, 64 xeon procs and 64 500gb sata drives. Whew!




O... M... Gosh...

That is INSANE! Why would you need that? A company like newegg maybe? lol I really have no idea...

Just about how much would that cost do you think? lol

-SF

[Airbozo]

O... M... Gosh...

That is INSANE! Why would you need that? A company like newegg maybe? lol I really have no idea...

Just about how much would that cost do you think? lol

-SF

Hehe tell me about it. My fingers hurt today from installing all that memory. I only have 5 systems left to finish today. The rest are either in my burn in station or in shipping waiting for the rest of the systems. Maybe i can snap a quick pic of my burn in area...

The servers are for this company: http://www.hwwilson.com/ In Crimsons neighborhood..

They do electronic publishing and search.

I think the systems are around $5k-$7k each... I try to keep out of the money end of things since my real skills are working with the hardware.

sgtm: take some snaps of your own server room, or ask the co-lo center if you can take some for promotional adverts. They usually will agree and you will be showing the servers your customers will use. On your web site if I could suggest, change the Extreme plus banner to read 10gb instead of 10000mb. might help with the format. Also are you haveing issues with cpanel? My provider uses that too but it is _dog slow_! They have had to change a bunch of their configurations to accomodate the fact it is basically doing a dos on their internal storage arrays...

[SgtM]

Thanks Airbozo. I think I'm just going use some snapshots of a generic case I have lying around. The picture doesn't need to be too detailed anyway. Thanks everyone for their input.

You know, I was actually playing around with the packaging graphics last night? Funny you should mention that. My web site will always be a work in progress (for me anyway).

As far as cPanel goes, I haven't had one bit of problem with it, but I've heard of others having issues too. I check that and WHM at multiple times during the day. Just basically go in and play with things, and see if anything isn't loading right or whatever. What OS is your provider running? I'm running RHEL4 on my server. 2.8 gig proc, 2 gigs ram and 240 gigs hdd (2 x 120). I've only got a 10 meg uplink to the server, but as I'm sure you saw, my site and others that I host don't take but a second to load.

[Airbozo]

Yes a website will usually be a WIP for those that are concerned. I personally have not touched my "official" website in _years_ (main site still ofline even after moving hosting companies). I just use ot now for data transfer, file hosting and picture hosting (all 4 of em).

I am not sure what my host is running, although here at work we opted for fedora core 4 since it has more HW support for raid and such even though we could have gotten RHEL for free. RHEL lags behind fedora by at least 6 months for features and support, but most people that buy RHEL buy it for the support.

[SgtM]

Funny you should mention Fedora. I'm about to put Fedora 5 on a testing server here in the office.

[Airbozo]

Funny you should mention Fedora. I'm about to put Fedora 5 on a testing server here in the office.

I was able to use fedora core 4 to boot from a raided drive setup and could not do so with RHEL4. I also think (from my own observations) that the usb support is better in fedora and same with the network stack (although it should be the same since the tcp/ip stack has been pretty stable for years).

The way it was explained to me by our redhat rep, is that they contribute code to the fedora project for testing and if it is stable they include it (modified slightly) in the next RHEL release. I would say that is pretty close to what I see in the real world with our customers.