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Chassis Only and Parts Only Customers
Expedites - In a Rush ??
  • We all have to depend on 3rd party vendors and deliveries

  • Our typical delivery schedule is around 4-5 business days "After Receipt of Order and Approval"
    • 1-2 days to gather your custom parts
    • 1-3 day to build and test your system
    • 0.5 day to prepare and ship it

  • To help maintain our schedules, workflow, and staffing, With our current workload....
    Our "Normal LeadTime" Rule of thumb: One day per server
    • 10 servers implies normal delivery in 10 days
    • 20 servers implies normal delivery in 20 days

  • Faster turn-around subject to parts availability and manufacturing schedule availability
    • $100/server Expedite Fee for faster turn around in 3-4 days than "normal" leadtime
    • $250/server Expedite Fee for faster turn around in 1-2 days than "normal" leadtime

  • Expedite and Overtime Labor Rate Schedule
    • Time required to Assemble your Server starts from receipt and acceptance/confirmation of your PO
    • Expected delivery time will be quoted on the POs at acceptance/confirmation of your PO

    • Expedite charges for overtime to meet YOUR desired delivery schedule
      • Any time spent over 8hrs per day or over 40hrs per week..
      • Weekends and after "normal hours" are 2x normal labor rates
      • Holidays are 3x normal labor rates

Optional Assembly and Installation Fees
  • Assembly Fees covers
    • Covers web-page searches
    • Parts Ordering
    • Receiving parts or driving there to pick up parts
    • Shipping costs to receive parts
    • Verification that all parts physiclly fit into the chassis

    • PC/Mechanical Assembly
      • $150 --Optional -- Mechanical PC assembly and Parts Testing
        • 2-3hr or so of mechanical assembly of all the parts into 1U chassis
      • $250 --Optional -- RAID assembly

    • Multiple Server Disounts
      • Discounts for at 10+ server are available on "linux installation fees"
      • Discounts are NOT available on mechanical installation/builds

      • See Discounts for terms and conditions

      Parts-Only Fees

  • Optional Assembly and Linux Software Installation Fees
    • Fees includes parts replacement if its unreliable during the "burn in period"
      • Fees does NOT include costs of linux software

    • Purchases Are Confirmed and Ordered when
      • Receipt of FAX at our offices and acknowledged and delivery dates have been negotiated
      • Deposits have been postmarked and/or received

    • Typical Turn Around Scheduling
      • After receipt of deposits and fax confirmations:
        • 1-2 days to gather your parts that we do not have in stock
        • 1-3 days to build/debug/test/document each server

      • Faster turn-around subject to Expedite Fees


    Various Linux Software Installation Options

    • $100 -- Generic Linux CDROM-only Installation
      • We want to know that all the parts are working before we ship
      • System boots while in our facility -- mb/cpu/mem/disk is working properly

      • For semi-final testing, Linux-1U.net will install a random linux distribution for testing only
      • There is NO written or implied suitability or merchantability to customer's applications

      • Customer plans to wipe-out our generic linux install used for testing
      • Customer is responsible for hardware compatibility with their OS and drivers
      • 1 Hr Generic Installation of Linux software
        • Linux software CD media is NOT included with the systems
      • 24hr-48hr burn-in tests ( as time permits )

    • $350 --Optional -- Upgraded Linux Install and Patches
      • Linux-1U.net will do our best effort to meet the pre-configured linux installation option you selected
      • Apply Available Patches will be applied after cdrom installations
      • We will install any operating system of your choice...
        • Linux: debian, redhat, slackware, suse, turbolinux etc
        • FreeBSD, Solaris, etc
      • Our disk partition preferences
      • 24hr-48hr burn-in tests ( as time permits )
        • infinite kernel compiles ( linux.test.pl )
        • infinite memory tests ( memtest.sh )
        • infinite disk tests ( tree.pl )

    • $500 --Optional -- Upgraded Raid1 Install and Patches
      • Install Raid1 Patches and Upgrades
      • Simulate Disk failures ( boot off of both drives separately in degraded mode )
      • Recover from degraded mode operation

    • $500 -- Optional -- Linux Upgrades and Plug-n-Play into your LAN configuration
      • Should be about 3-4hrs of work to install and test everything
      • Requires info on of your DNS server, Gateway, hostnames, domain name, ip#, etc
        • demo web server, email server configurations
      • Backup scripts
      • Email and some phone support till system is pingable to/from this server to the internet

    • $750 -- Optional -- User Defined Customization
      • Up to 5-6hrs of work to install and test everything
      • Includes Linux Upgrades above
      • Up to 2 virtual domains configured for web, email, ftp, mailing list
      • We will install your company's appplications
      • We will localize to your native languages
        • chinese, japanese, korean, etc

    • $1,000 -- Optional -- Raid5 Upgrade & Testing
      • To support raid5, it usually requires the latest kernel patches
      • Simulate disk failures by power down each disk and recover from degraded mode

    • $1,000 -- Optional -- Security Upgrades
      • Up to 7-8hrs of work to install and test everything
      • Includes Linux Upgrades above
      • Additional tightening and security precautions

    • $2000 /day -- Optional -- Firewall and Network (RE-)Configuration
      • Configure, test your firewall for medium-level security
      • Configure, test your network to function as specified

    • $1000 /day -- Optional -- Onsite installs
      • We will reconfigure the system at your site...
      • Do everything to get your server up and running
      • Discounts available for multiple servers to install into your racks



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