I need advice regarding a simple, low-volume webserver. Our society is bringing our web hosting in-house and I need to purchase my hardware shortly. It's a relatively low-volume site, serving up +/- 20,000 or so sessions in a month (our society membership is < 9,000, so there's not a lot of traffic to the site most days). What I'm looking at is:
- Windows 2000 w/ IIS (I know, I know, but I don't know command one of *nix and really don't have time to play and learn) - mostly static-content .cfm, with some data-driven pages (directories & such) - CFMX - some mail server program (leaning towards iMail, but open for suggestions, though must be easy to setup and maintain) for serving our office (a dozen accounts) plus possibly other accounts for officers (so should have POP/SMTP/whatever else) - Dell server (I've had only great experiences with their hardware to date) What do you recommend for RAM and HDD configuration? Besides "as much RAM as possible..." Is 2 GB ok, or overkill if 1 GB would suit my requirements? What level of RAID is necessary for a small server? Do I need to go all-out with some tricked out rack-mounted web server appliance, or would I do just fine with a solidly built Poweredge box? Primary in my mind is keeping it as simple as possible, and the less it costs, the happier I'll be (budget? what budget...) - I'm imagining somewhere around $5,000 - $7,500 or so (is that even reasonable?). Also to consider is that I'm one guy wearing several hats, so I just don't have the time to learn Linux, cuddle a tempermental server, etc. Any suggestions welcome. Thanks in advance. Cheers, James James Mathieson Information Systems Manager The Wildlife Society 5410 Grosvenor Lane Bethesda, MD 20814-2197 PH: 301-897-9770 Fax: 301-530-2471 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.wildlife.org/ ______________________________________________________________________ This list and all House of Fusion resources hosted by CFHosting.com. The place for dependable ColdFusion Hosting. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with 'unsubscribe' in the body or visit the list page at www.houseoffusion.com
