Every Solid-State Server owner benefits from the core innovations. Customers pay for the exact upgrades, warranties, and support that they need.

Use this worksheet to calculate the price for a single server. To purchase servers, use the Add to Cart button to add one configured server bundle to your shopping cart. On the shopping cart page, you can remove the bundle, or change the quantity to purchase multiple servers with the same exact configuration.

* Mechanical drives are not solid state components.
** Installation service is governed by the Installation Service SLA. We will arrange an installation time with you.
*** The default warranty is our Limited Warranty.
The Extended Warranty options provide coverage under the Axis Extended Warranty for the indicated time period from shipping date.
**** Standard remote system support is governed by the Turnkey Product Support SLA.

Standard options are purposefully limited, as explained elsewhere. We encourage you to email us about your customization plans, so that we can provide compatibility information and technical advice. It is also very easy for you to get pricing for unlisted customizations. Just email us and we will add a customized bundle to your shopping cart. At your leisure, you can examine the details in your cart and either remove or purchase the bundle. Some popular configuration customizations are for SATA RAID, out-of-band modem access, Apache + PHP, and C or Java shared development.

1. File server with support
   + RAID 5 disk space + 400W PS upgrade + support + extended warranty
2. Technical-Savvy R&D Base server
   Customer has spare parts and the expertise to install them.
   + Read-only CD/DVD drive
3. Redundant application servers
   Either the content is small (< 1G) or the content will be housed on a network drive.
   2 Base Systems + support
4. Power server
   + support + extended warranty + Quad Core/2600 Mhz upgrade + 16 G RAM
5. Traditional RAID System
   + support + extended warranty + RAID-Mirrored root drives - solid-state Disk Space

• Mirrored solid-state root drives. See the Solid-State Technology subsection below.
  
  Following our policy of providing only what our customer needs, the base server comes with mirrored solid-state disk drives, which have better performance and reliability for the operating system. Thanks to the efficiency of Linux, there is plenty of space for any and all operating system options and add-ons, if you want them. Most enterprise environments provide centralized SAN or network disk space for applications. For customers who want self-contained application disk space, we provide several standard options of SATA drives, with or without RAID protection, for a great performance-to-dollar ratio. You can also drop in your own SATA drives, or add controller cards and drives for SCSI or other interfaces.
• Basic server and administration utilities are installed. Plug in power and ethernet, and you have a working Linux server. Use the console or ssh in to securely adjust network, email, or any other settings. Both command-line and fully graphical alternatives are provided.
• High-speed access to application software is all set up. The server comes pre-configured with commercial, high speed access to Axis's OpenSUSE software repository. You can manually browse what is available here, but it is much easier with the pre-configured Graphical software-management interface and high-speed access (see Pre-configured Software Manager... below).
• Mainstream Linux Distribution. We install the current production release of OpenSUSE Linux. Besides saving hundreds of dollars on your initial purchase price, you will enjoy the tremendous support advantages only available to users of mainstream, up-to-date Linux distributions. You can comparison-shop for commercial support in a very competitive market. You can download and run current versions of Linux programs available on the Internet. You can benefit from thousands of free Internet support mechanisms that actively support current versions of software products, many of them involving the authors of the products. Users of enterprise linux variants generally do not enjoy these benefits.
• Off-the-shelf Linux Distribution. Our servers can be driven at top-performance using off-the-shelf Linux because we use standard, Intel-compatible and Linux-compatible hardware components. You don't need to run a special Linux kernel or distribution, which would drastically narrow your support and upgrade alternatives.
• Streamlined O.S. install. We strip the operating system of numerous non-server components, which encumber the average Linux server (for example, audio, gaming, 3D graphics, and laptop features) and assume security vulnerabilities for no reason.
• We use only the most Cost-Effective components. The server line described here was designed with brutal attention to cost-effectiveness. The pricing of our standard options is only possible by strictly limiting these options. This keeps our management and risk costs low, and our technical support staff know all of these components intimately. Customizations are no problem, but customizations are performed at conventional price scales. We have been building custom UNIX servers since 1994 (Incorporated in 1996), and half of our current sales include some user-specific customization. To get pricing for any hardware or software customization, just email us. We will add a customized bundle to your shopping cart, which you can remove or purchase at your leisure.

  Although the components of our Solid-State Servers are substantially fixed, the resultant systems are both immensely scalable, and much more powerful than similarly-priced units available elsewhere. Motherboard and CPU selections are cases-in-point. We purposefully use specific models of mainstream motherboards and CPUs (as opposed to enterprise-/business-/server-class), not to achieve our net price-point goal, but because the net performance per dollar is much higher. Benchmarks, as well as specifications from the manufacturers themselves, prove that mainstream product lines continually get faster and cheaper, while server motherboards and business-class CPUs have a terrible performance-to-dollar ratio. Our customers benefit from economies of scale-- don't be a victim of Intel and AMD marketing ploys.

  Finally, the combined factors of solid state base components, a single (multi-core) CPU, and on-board video result in a system that can be powered by cool and quiet 300 Watt power supplies, even if you add on an optical drive and six mechanical disk drives.

• Pre-configured Software Manager and System Update Tool. To save you from what is often the most demanding aspect of Linux system administration, our servers come with OpenSUSE's YaST Software Management module and YaST Online Update module pre-configured. Use the graphical interfaces to select OpenSUSE or third party software packages to install or update, pulling from our high-speed repositories. If you are working at the physical console, over a slow network connection, or just have not set up a graphical client, you can use the character-based YaST interface, or even the powerful Zypper command line to control the same powerful system.

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Solid-State Technology

• Axis's custom Linux module allows an off-the-shelf Linux operating system to run on our low-cost, solid-state drives with all of the benefits listed below. I/O-intensive applications will need their own application disk space, and this page explains several cost-effective alternatives. But the health and reliabilty of your server is guaranteed by the mirrored solid-state root disks. You can read about the details of the Solid-State Backup System.
• Solid state drives are much less susceptible to physical damage than mechanical drives. Our drives can, for example, be dropped from a height of three feet without suffering any ill effects. They do not have the environmental requirements of traditional disk drives (for example, temperature, humidity, smoke).
• Solid state drives consume much less power and generate much less heat.
• Our solid-state drives can be hot-swapped without the need for any special supporting hardware. (As with any hot-swap scenario, there will be data corruption if you disconnect a drive at the same time data as that drive is being written to).
• Our solid-state drives are externally accessible and are very small. A system upgrade or replacement can be performed, for example, by hitting an eject button and inserting an over-nighted replacement drive.
• Every standard Axis Solid-State Server comes with two mirrored, root, solid-state disk drives. The mirroring system is designed for root disks, with the mirroring occuring on schedule or on-demand. Unlike instantaneous RAID mirroring (which makes much sense for application disk space), this system protects you from configuration and data corruption problems, and allows for reversion to the synchronization point. See the Backup System Wiki page to see how easy the system recovery procedure is.

• Applications that have a lot of data to be served faster, quieter, and cooler than is possible with mechanical drives
• To run a Linux variant other than OpenSUSE, without having to manually install Axis's solid state interface module (or paying Axis to do it).
• For maximum Intel-based compatibility, where you can swap thousands of off-the-shelf hardware components and even operating systems.