>> It's time to switch hosts. I'm looking at the following: >> >> Dual Xeon E5-2690 >> 32GB RAM >> 4x SSD RAID10 > nice >> Can I count on this system to keep running if I lose an SSD? > if a built in raid controller, yes. one thing you might want to check is > linux tools for management -- you wouldn't want to reboot just go to go > into the raid tools and check if it requires a rebuild, and you want to > be able to schedule regular scrubs and maybe get a report. > you might also like to consider OOB management such as IPMI, dell and HP > do very lovely web based control panels that are independent of your > main o/s allowing you to get alerts when bad things happen, and > crucially watch reboot process from remote locations.
Good idea, I will look into IPMI. >> Is a 100M uplink enough if this is my only system on the LAN? > gigabit NICs are pretty cheap i'd be surprised if any new machine didn't > have gigabit. i would suggest if you ever want to transfer data over > 10GB across the network you should request gigabit I should be OK with 100M. I shouldn't be copying anything across the LAN. >> Any opinions on Soft Layer? >> >> - Grant > are you putting this server in colocation at softlayer? if so OOB is a > requirement, and gigabit is not I decided against colocation because I don't want to be responsible for fixing hardware problems. It would be a hosted machine. - Grant
