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Old 10th March 2005 | 22:31
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Rugz
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Drauk,

I have recently started a small web hosting / design company (working from home part-time; we all still have full time jobs, but see this as our retirement plan lol) with two friends and things are progressing quite nicely. Most of our customers are hosted on Wintel servers, however our e-commerce customers are on Unix servers.

I've been trying to lay my hands on some cheap / free unix hardware for a couple of months, for development / sys test / uat purposes.

This would, without a doubt, do the trick. We are currently playing with a number of flavours of unix on older wintel boxes but it's just not the same.

This would allow us to replicate our live environments much more closely, and also let us relearn many things from our sys admin days. It will also help us teach the one non-unix chap the joys and wonders of real unix.

Any chance they are still available, and do I count as a 'good' home? I am more than happy to travel down from sunny Birmingham to collect, or to arrange for them to be couriered up here.

Cheers, Rugz.
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