Refurbished Servers Under R20 000

Affordable servers for small business and labs

Cheap refurbished servers under R20 000 ex VAT for file sharing, domain controllers, small virtualisation hosts, backup and home labs. Every Dell PowerEdge and HPE ProLiant server is tested and backed by a 12-month warranty.

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  • 12-month warranty on servers
  • Configured to order RAM, drives, RAID, rails
  • Prices ex VAT with a tax invoice
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Refurbished servers under R20 000 at Server Site

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A real server for less

Under R20 000 buys a dual-processor enterprise server that would cost many times more new, with redundant power, hot-swap drives and remote management. Need more power? Browse every model in our full range of refurbished servers.

What R20 000 buys, by workload

Match the server to the job first. These are sensible starting points; we can adjust memory and drives before it ships.

File server and Active Directory

A single or dual Xeon E5 v3/v4 server with 32GB to 64GB of RAM and mirrored drives handles file sharing, print and domain services for a small office.

Small virtualisation host

Two processors with 16 or more cores in total, 64GB to 128GB of RAM and SSDs for a handful of virtual machines on Hyper-V, Proxmox or VMware.

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Backup target or home lab

An older 12th Gen or Gen8 server, or any model with 3.5" bays, gives cheap capacity for Veeam repositories, test labs and learning.

Servers under R20 000: frequently asked questions

What is the best cheap server for a small business?

A Dell PowerEdge R630 or HPE DL360 Gen9 with one or two Xeon E5 v3/v4 processors and 64GB of RAM runs file sharing, Active Directory, a few virtual machines and backup comfortably. For lots of storage, choose a model with 3.5" bays.

Is an older 12th Gen or Gen8 server still worth buying?

For labs, backup targets and light workloads, yes, at a very low price. For production virtualisation, a 13th Gen or Gen9 server is more efficient and supports newer operating systems for longer.

Will a rack server be too loud for an office?

Rack servers are built for server rooms, so the fans are loud at start-up and under load, and 1U models are the loudest. If the server will sit near people, choose a 2U model, put it in a cupboard or comms room, or ask us about a tower.

Tell us your budget and what the server will run, and we will recommend the best spec for the money and quote it ex VAT.

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