Every day our support techs answer questions from our customers – and potential customers – on technical questions with Enterprise servers. We thought it would be helpful to create a blog post series that summarize the common issues that come up and provide the quick-fix solutions and server troubleshooting steps that we frequently offer.
It’s our first entry in TechMike’s Quick Fix Guide – P...
Dell PowerEdge vs. HPE ProLiant Rack Servers. Is it tomato vs. tomahto, simply a matter of personal preference? Or are there fundamental considerations with what is best for your use case?
Dell and HPE are the most prominent players of the 21-billion-dollar server market and by far take up the most significant share of servers that TechMikeNY sells. As refurbishers, we have spent countles...
A big part of our ethos at TechMikeNY is environmentally friendly IT solutions and products -- and nothing speaks to that more than energy efficiency. Nobody wants to have an electronic gas-guzzler – especially when you're the one flipping the bill!
Here are some helpful tips on how to minimize home server electricity usage. We'll also provide some high-level thoughts into specific topics s...
A big part of Enterprise servers are power supply units (PSU) since those servers demand a degree of mission-critical redundancy in place. In our Advantages of Dual Power Supply Unit Servers post, we answered the question of whether two PSUs will cause your server to draw more power; here are a few more questions we've tackled for our customers on the ins-and-outs of Server Power Supply Units...
If you are looking for energy efficiency in your server build (and who isn’t?!), many processor manufacturers, most notably Intel, have created lines of low power processors (LPP’s) designed to consume less electricity without greatly diminishing performance. This post will cover what to look for when buying a low power processor and explain TDP, or Thermal Design Power, which is a key spec ...
We often get questions from our customers, especially those that are planning to utilize their server as a personal lab or run out of a home, "How much will this server impact my electricity bill?"
We took some of our most popular servers and measured their performance in power consumption. We measured the Kilowatts Per Hour (kWh) and calculated it against the average electricity cost in the ...
At TechMikenNY, many of our customers are hobbyists or small business owners that are looking for an economical but powerful hosting solution to run out of their home or small office. After years of assisting and advising these customers, we have a tremendous familiarity with the advantages and considerations of buying a home server or home lab. Sharing what we know is what we are all about ...
News Flash: computers – server computers especially – don't like heat. It's no surprise that if you've ever seen a rack server with its service lid removed, there is a phalanx of fans positioned to cool the system components.
Now you're probably wondering how to cool a server rack. Here are some relatively simple tips & tricks to keep your server cool – especially if you run it in a ho...
The majority of the servers that TechMikeNY sells are dual power supply unit servers, or, in other words, come with two power supplies. For the budget conscious, we do provide some configurations with one power supply and the option to add a second power supply. What is the advantage of having a redundant power supply? Simple: if one of the dual PSUs for a server should fail, the othe...
