Well, the first consideration might be that nothing,other than the DB
server, can take advantage of four processors and 2 GB of RAM. FTP,
streaming media and file serving take little processor power - a single
processor box with 128 - 256 meg of ram (or a linux box with 32 - 64 MB) is
plenty. If you do a lot of streaming media, you might want to consider
distributed caching servers.
We spec our CF boxes (NT/2000) at 2 PIIIs (not Xeon), mirrored disks and
512 MB. We generally buy the fastest processors available, lately 733s
and, as tempting as those little IBMs may be, we currently favor Dell 2450s.
At 09:59 AM 5/11/00 -0500, you wrote:
>I have been asked to post this to the list by our hardware guy.
>
>For a Cold Fusion or Database server, what would give the best performance
>with 1 or 2 GB of RAM:
>
> Quad Pentium III Zeon 550 with 512 KB, 1 MB or 2 MB cache
>
>or
>
> Quad Pentium III 700 with 256 On-Die cache
>
>Also, which processor is better for FTP, File Serving, streaming media and
>Verity.\?
>
>Russel Madere, Jr.
>Web Developer
Cary Gordon
The Cherry Hill Company
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