About
Who we are
SMB Servers Limited is an NZ owned and operated small business that came about after recognising a need for other Small to Medium Businesses to be able to access the benefits of high performance enterprise servers in an affordable package which we found after building our business on exactly the hardware we have come to sell.
This website, as well as our entire environment, is run on the same hardware that we have on offer here and we aim to ensure the same is within your reach.
Good servers and good hardware are the cornerstone of business efficiency and our long-term goals are to one day offer the full Enterprise experience to Small to Medium Business.
What we sell
Right now we're driving hard to offer a full range of server hardware solutions to solve any business IT problem, and be ready and waiting to help guide you through the hardware you need to achieve your business goals.
SMB Servers sell enterprise server hardware, with a few outliers (such as workstations when we get them in), the same stuff you'll see in a server room in any large business.
We can build, configure, and design these servers to your needs, warranty our hardware, and be available in emergencies to supply spares when something goes wrong.
Presently we focus on selling
- single and dual socket Xeon servers in the E5 and Scalable models in high performance configurations (usually over 256GB of RAM and 24 cores+)
- GPUs for AI and Crypto environments
- spares for proprietary hardware (fans, heatsinks, CPUs)
- enterprise storage (with a focus on SAS interfaces)
- PCI-E Expansion Cards
- cables, consumables and components
- and others as we receive or field requests
Why we sell it
During our journey, we found that fully-specced servers of previous generations could outperform newer mainstream servers in server workloads for a fraction of the cost, yet were difficult to find.
Used hardware was usually low-specced and not fit to build a business upon, and almost always "what you see is what you get", especially when purchased used, and when your business relies on a device, it's too risky to be snubbed by a seller when something goes wrong.
At the same time new enterprise servers from leading brands are priced out of the reach of most SMB, yet the need for reliable, powerful servers are just as great.
As we’ve once done, this often pushes businesses to building servers using consumer hardware and losing out on the monitoring, management, redundancy and reliability benefits of true enterprise servers.
Or alternatively looking into cloud VPS solutions, which quietly ramp up monthly costs as your needs increase with confusing pricing systems and become very difficult to migrate from in a production environment all while your sensitive business data is held by a third party.
And thus we thought if no one else was going to supply this service, then there's no better people out there than us.