Tips: buy a brand server or assemble a server?

On Friday, Xiao Bian’s work mailbox suddenly received an email with the subject “Zhang Da’s editor no longer helps, Ma Yun will monopolize the market”. The editor is not very concerned about Ma Yun personally, but if Ma Yun’s Taobao really monopolizes the market, the cost of Xiaobian to Taobao’s bargains may have to increase a lot. With this mentality, Xiaobian opened this approximation. The mail to be embarrassed.

Dear Editor:

Hello!

I am very sorry, the name of the email is a bit exaggerated, but it is not malicious, just hope to draw your attention. This is the case. My name is Zheng Yusheng. I am the person in charge of a network merchant in Hangzhou. The company used to sell creative home products imported from Europe and America through Taobao and eBay. After several years of painstaking efforts, the company has already had certain The scale and business volume are also gradually increasing. Therefore, it plans to build its own independent e-commerce platform, strengthen management, and prepare for the long-term development of the company. Up to now, other work such as business plans and personnel recruitment have been prepared. Only the establishment of the information platform has not been determined. The main reason is that in the choice of servers, this is exactly what I wrote to you. s reason. Now there are two opinions in our company. One party's opinion is to buy a brand server. The reason is that the brand server is stable, the product quality is good, the service is guaranteed, and the other party's point of view is to buy the assembly server. The reason is that the assembly server is cost-effective and configured. It is also flexible and the performance is not bad. The opinions of both parties can be said to be relatively pertinent. In addition, I personally don’t know much about the server. I have no idea at the moment, so I hope the editor can give some professional advice. If you buy a complete machine, please recommend one or two suitable models. If you think that the assembly is more suitable for us, please give a specific configuration. Thank you very much.

Best regards

Hangzhou Yatai Trading Company Zheng Yusheng

After reading the letter, Xiaobian finally put down his heart. It turned out to be a title party. It is really hateful. However, in other words, the situation mentioned by this merchant is very representative in the current large-scale network operators, and only for the server products for small and medium-sized enterprises, it also presents the brand and assembly. It’s no wonder that there are two different opinions within the company at the same time. After careful consideration, Xiaobian gave the net merchant a solemn reply to "the brand and the assembly are all biased. Ma Yun monopolizes the market is just a legend", the full text is as follows:

Dear Mr. Zheng:

Hello!

Thank you very much for your trust and concern. I have carefully read your letter. First of all, I can tell you with certainty that no matter whether it is Ma Yun’s Taobao or Alibaba, it will not monopolize the monopoly of the industry. According to Xiaobian, the number of netizens who shop through Taobao accounts for about 70% of the total number of online shoppers. The absolute number is huge, but it is still not monopolized. The reason is the individualization and diversification of consumer demand. And this is the ultimate answer to your question about how to choose a server. Let's get down to business, let's talk about what kind of server you should choose.

As Xiaobian said above, what kind of server to choose depends on the demand. Through your introduction, I have summarized some of the possible needs of your company: the company's business is growing rapidly, third-party platform The company cannot plan to create its own independent e-commerce platform, enhance management, and establish a brand image. Since all aspects require capital investment, it is necessary to reduce the platform cost as much as possible. If the Xiaobian analysis is correct, then according to the characteristics of these requirements, Xiao Bian believes that choosing a brand server or choosing an assembly server can basically meet your needs, but the brand and assembly focus are different. I believe you have read the following After the analysis, I already have my own ideas.

First of all, the brand server, the biggest advantage of the brand server is the design of the whole machine. Before the factory, it needs to pass multiple tests. Therefore, the performance is slightly better. At the same time, the brand server is generally equipped with The management module and perfect after-sales service simplify the user management steps, and can also help users to save costs to a certain extent. In addition, the use of brand servers also enhances the image of the enterprise. However, for network users, this is a point. Not very important, after all, the server has always played the role of "behind the scenes". If you value the above advantages of the brand server, then the ASUS TS100-E6 and HP ML110 G6 are good choices.

look at server assembly, compared to brand server server assembly of the biggest selling point is its high scalability and cost very flexible, both on the one hand can reduce building costs, on the other hand also take into account Upgrade in the future, especially for the needs of long-term SMEs.

As for performance, in fact, the same as ordinary computer truth, play a decisive role in performance processor, memory, hard drives and other major core parts, therefore, the same brand of machine configuration and assembly of machine performance There is no significant difference in terms of stability; after all, stability and after-sales service, the stability of the server generally has two aspects, one is the quality of the accessories, the server stability problem caused by this reason is not unique to the assembly server. Brand server and assembly server in the same configuration, the probability of system instability caused by accessories is the same, the second reason is the server chassis layout design, which is a big weakness of the previous assembly server, but now available on the market The assembly server is currently assembled by professional manufacturers. The layout of the chassis is very mature. Together with the improvement of the IT manufacturing process, the heat of the processor, memory and other accessories is getting smaller and smaller, and the stability of the assembly server has been very good. Great improvement, fully able to meet the needs of general business users.

say after-sales service, management and maintenance of the server your company is like most such users headache, brand server has a perfect after-sales service, but expensive, dedicated servers provide after-sales before the assembly is not much However, this situation has been greatly improved. Many assembly server manufacturers have been quite perfect in after-sales service. For example, Xinwei International, the largest server parts distributor in China, not only establishes an after-sales service system, but also invests in building only the domestic ones. The professional server inspection and maintenance organization enables users to enjoy the after-sales protection of comparable brand servers, and the service price is much lower. Finally, if you feel that the assembly server is more suitable for your current situation, Xiaobian also recommends a set of performance and cost solutions here, please refer to:


E-commerce platform configuration scheme< o:p>
Processor
Xeong-5504
Memory
4G DDR3 RECC 1333
Main Board
ASUS Z8NA-D6/Z8NA-D6C
Hard Disk
Seagate 300G/15K 16M Cache
Chassis Power < o:p>
AUSU 1U Server Chassis +400W Power
Array Card
ASUS PIKE6480(RAID0.1.10.5)