Server hardware - UK based
Chris Ruprecht
chris at ruprecht.org
Fri Aug 11 15:36:45 UTC 2006
Gary,
I have excellent experiences with IBM eServers xSeries. In general, they
use intel XEON CPUs, the x325/x326 is using AMD Opteron CPUs. I think
the 1U servers only have up to 2 drives, so you would have a mirrored
set of them (RAID 1) and that's about it. If you need more drives, you
probably have to go for either a 2U or 3U server or get a second (3U)
drive cage with the appropriate number of drives.
Your server will not be used that heavy though and you might be ok with
2 x 146 GB SCSI drives. All these servers have SCSI (UltraSCSI-320)
drives these days. ATA/SATA drives are more for desktop PCs and such.
1400/day messages isn't a heavy loads, 5000/day hits isn't heavy either.
The number of additional drives would depend on how much data you need
to store.
I think a single XEON will work just fine, you might opt for a dual core
CPU, though.
Best regards,
Chris
On Fri, 2006-08-11 at 15:12 +0100, Gary Stainburn wrote:
> Hi folks
>
> I'm in the process of buying a new 1U rackmounted server for work. It will
> run my
>
> mail server (exim/dovecot) with approx 120 users and 1400 emails per day with
> Anti-virus done by Sophos/Sophie and Clanmav
> Apache with PHP and Perl CGI accessing a Postgesql database with approx 3000
> hits per day.
>
> I'll be running FC5 on it.
>
> I'm looking for people's recommendations and experiences. Any I should go for?
> Any I should avoid.
>
> I'm not bothered much about brand name. Build quality and performance are what
> I'm more concerned about, specifically the web server and therefore the SQL
> server - the schema/data contained with will become quite extensive.
>
> The areas I'm unsure of are things like:
>
> comparisons between Celeron and Xeon processors
> benefits/drawbacks of multiple processors
> benefits/drawback of RAID
> type of HDD and their performance.
> --
> Gary Stainburn
>
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