Re: [TCLUG:21429] Server recommendations

[<Nick.T.Reinking@supervalu.com>]

Well, I consider that box to be low/mid-range for a server.

I figure that by the time that server is swamped (It'll be running
both PostgreSQL 7.0.2 and PHP 4.0.2/Optimizer, I can afford
to buy a mid-range server (like SPARC/Solaris).

A machine like that would provide some considerable oomph,
as the the ServerWorks Chipset (used by most OEMs for their
Intel servers) helps with Intel's greatest problem - memory bandwidth.

According to Sun, an E250 with:
1 400MHz UltraSPARC
512MB memory
1 18GB SCSI 10000RPM disk
Fast Ethernet
Redundant Power Supply
No video card

That would run me $15,000.

I still would need another disk or two, plus a license for one of the
two RAID solutions (non-hardware), or need to purchase some
kind of RAID solution.

Would that be a faster machine than the one I can make for $3500?

Even if it is, is it worth the 400% price differential?

Nick Reinking





jethro@freakzilla.com, on 09/19/2000 03:46:32 PM
To: tclug-list@mn-linux.org @ PMDF
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Subject: Re: [TCLUG:21429] Server recommendations

  Hi,

On Tue, 19 Sep 2000, Adam Maloney wrote:

> When your company grows just grow the machine with it.  There's no
> business sense in having a machine that cost you an arm and a leg just sit
> idle for 99.9% of the time picking it's nose.

I agree. If you DON'T want to start with the very-high-end, get some
homebrew mid-range box. I guess it depends on what kind of laod you're
expecting. However, when the loads DO get high, Intel is not the place to
be. 

-Yaron

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