Cellar servers replacement project thread

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which if you hit F5 now sits at 80%.

Now 90%, thank you donor!

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The Wikipedia List of HP Products, ProLiant page is not half as useful as the Dell page. We are only interested in DL - which stands for "Rack Chassis", because that's how marketing people think.

The G-number is which Generation the servers are, so for example the G3 is much older than our target G5. (The G6s are too young and therefore too expensive.)

320 and 360 are 1U - one rack space in size. Very thin, but also more subject to problems, because everything's stuffed in there and the fans must be very tiny. The 380 and 385 are 2U, more roomy, more flexible.

The beefier 580 and up are out of our price range. So the ProLiant 380 G5 and ProLiant 385 G5 are the HP targets.