Server hardware - UK based

Chris Allen chris at cjx.com
Fri Aug 11 19:19:59 UTC 2006


I'd highly recommend Broadberry - www.broadberry.co.uk

They are fast, knowledgeable and courteous, and their after-sales
support is superb.



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.
>   




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