Re: [TCLUG:21429] Server recommendations

[Brian T <tobytoo@black-hole.com>]

I built my dual celeron system for under $1000, that includes a SCSI
card and 2  10G HDs only running 192M but that's because I don't need
the extra onboard. The raid stack doesn't count because that was a
gimme.




Adam Maloney wrote:
> 
> Heh...
> 
> intel != high-end.
> 
> But I think what you've got is really overkill.  You've spec'd a server
> that's capable of pushing far more bandwidth than you can afford, even
> doing heavy database and dynamic pages.
> 
> Almost everyone makes the same mistake when they start their own company.
> The first thing you do is go out and buy pens/shirts/business cards with
> your logo on them, and a server that's 10 times as powerful as is needed.
> If you want to stay in business start with what you need.  Grab a
> home-grown P-200MHz with 128MB.  Remember, you're not using NT so you
> don't need a state-of-the-art machine to get decent performance :)
> 
> 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.
> 
> Adam Maloney
> Systems Administrator
> Sihope Communications
> 
> On Tue, 19 Sep 2000, Yaron wrote:
> 
> >   Hi,
> >
> > On Tue, 19 Sep 2000 Nick.T.Reinking@supervalu.com wrote:
> >
> > > Greetings, all, I'm looking to build a server for an e-commerce
> > > company that I'm thinking about starting up.  Sadly, as I don't
> > > have much experience running Linux on "high-end" machines,
> >
> >
> > Sun. Sparc. Solaris.
> >
> >
> > -Yaron
> >
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