Here I would like to bring your attention to the DELL PowerEdge R210 server which has, with no doubts, the best quality-price ratio (QPR). It is a new model from DELL which has a very futuristic black "terminator" look and has the best price ever for a server you can find on the market.
The default model only costs 574 CHF, which is amazingly low and even cheaper than a desktop machine. This default model comes with a 2.8 GHz Intel Pentium CPU (2 cores) and only 1 GB of RAM. That's not much you would correctly argue but on the other hand it is the smallest or better said shortest 1u server rack I have ever seen. Furthermore, it is optimized to consume very little energy so yes we can say that it is a green server. Of course if you desire a better configuration you can always customize it as you desire.
Last little disadvantage: you will have to shutdown and open the server if you wish to add or swap hard disks as there is no drive bays on the front of the server such as in the higher models.Unfortunately, there are not many dedicated server companies with DELL hardware around, which is a pity. Most of the dedicated server hosting companies don't mention any brand for the server and this simply means that they use cheap no name and in most of the cases low quality hardware.
