James Mathieson wrote: > > 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)
Pay close attention to setting this up correctly the first time and disabling every service you don't need. It will take you quite some time to do so, but it means the amount of patches you need to apply goes from about once a week to once every 2 months. > - 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) Look into IMAP. What database? > - 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? You need 256 MB, I would go for 1 GB. You need 1 5400 RPM IDE drive for the webserver, I would go for 2 IDE drives in RAID mirror (preferebly with an A-brand controller like Adaptec). But I believe that the database and the mail will hit your HDD harder as the webserver part. > 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? IMHO, the brand of the components matters, not the brand of the whole thing. Jochem ______________________________________________________________________ Structure your ColdFusion code with Fusebox. Get the official book at http://www.fusionauthority.com/bkinfo.cfm ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with 'unsubscribe' in the body or visit the list page at www.houseoffusion.com
