[ale] Tower to Rack conversion

[jeff hubbs]

Dow -

Unless the server mfr actually sells a conversion kit, probably the best 
bet would be to buy a few sliding shelves and just lay the boxes flat.

This isn't necessarily going to solve the space problem, but if he wants 
to stay with the original machines, such is life.

Somewhere I saw an ad for rackmount machines that were two or four per 
enclosure - wish I could remember where but I think it was in a Linux 
rag of some kind.

- Jeff

Dow Hurst wrote:

> Is there an easy way to convert a tower based server to rackmount using
> a kit?  Does anyone have such a kit available?
> 
> A friend who is looking at moving his business from NT/IIS/MS-SQL/ASP to
> LAMP or some such setup is currently looking to move his servers to a
> colocation facility.  He has to get 4 servers (3 staging servers, 1
> production) into as small a space as is doable on a low budget.  He has
> suggested a conversion kit idea, but I don't know much about racks and
> building rack based servers.  Any ideas here?  He uses about 20Gb
> bandwidth per month and would like to keep the monthly bill below
> $500/month.  I think he has talked to Qwest and is thinking over the
> deal.  Thanks,
> Dow
> 
> 
> 




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