On Sunday September 21 2003 05:02 am, John Haxby wrote: > This is far too open-ended a question to answer properly. But I can > give some general advice based on the sizing stuff we use for Contact. > I think sizing information for Contact may be available on the web site, > I don't remember. > > Anyway, for web, database, e-mail and file servers the overwhelming need > is for fast I/O. If you're dealing with less than about 100 active > users then just go to your favourite hardware emporium and buy the > cheapest machine they have there. The disk speed will be fine. Memory > will be fine (256M, I expect), CPU speed will be hopelessly over the > top. Of course, you won't get a mirrored disk for that so you'll > suffer when the disk breaks. RAID1 between two IDE disks works quite well. I use it for web and mail services on lightly loaded machines. You have to keep the disks on different controllers so one disk failing cannot fry the other but most motherboards come with two controllers anyways. [good advice snipped} -- Stephen Carville http://www.heronforge.net/~stephen/gnupgkey.txt ------------------------------------------------------------------ Right wing socialists hate privacy as much as left wing socialists hate guns. -- Shrike-list mailing list Shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/shrike-list
