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The Best Building out a used server for your website
Way to Buy a should seem like an easy task. You find the
Used Server the server, configure it the way you want, then
for Hosting you send it to the datacenter so that it can
Websites serve data to your visitors.

22 PayOutMagazine Unfortunately, it’s just not that easy.

If you reach out to a company like Dell,
they’ll try to sell you new or re-certified server.

Once you go down this rabbit hole, you’ll
notice that the price tag rapidly gets to be tens
of thousands of dollars. If you start looking at
the fancy stuff like all flash SAN storage, you’re
talking about hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Adult webmasters must gain value from
their technology investments and one of the
best ways to do this is to start buying used
servers to host your websites.

Before you start procuring data center
equipment, here is a general overview written
by a 15-year IT veteran that will help you know
what to buy and where to buy it. Let’s begin!

What Type of Servers Should I Buy?

To give you a 50,000-foot view of what
type of servers you should buy, you should first
consider your objectives. What are you trying
to accomplish?

If your budget is only a couple thousand
dollars and you’re just wanting to get up and
running as quickly as possible, I’d recommend
the following types of servers:

� Dell PowerEdge Servers

� HP ProLiant Servers

You could debate other server lineups but
these two server families are some of the
biggest in the world and you will find that there
are more parts and suppliers available for
these servers than any other on the market.

Building for Now or Building for
Scale?

If you are wanting to get up and running as
cheaply and easily as possible, I’d recommend
going with the Dell PowerEdge lineup of
servers.