The following info may be completely useless but since I'm messing with win 2k8 and CF9 myself currently here's my take. My server will fulfil multiple roles and I've therefore opted for a quite attractively priced Sun Fire X2200 M2 with 2xquad AMDs and 8GB of RAM. I'm going to put win2k8 on it but will turn the initial install into a parent partition and give that OS a Hyper-V role only. This will require minimal resources. The rest of the server can then be conveniently filled with a few more Win2k8 VMs (but you can't use the web edition for these tasks, need to go one edition up at least). I guess my point is that you take a look at virtualisation for your setup as sounds like a good fit for a single, middle-weight machine. Plus if you have resources left over you can add another VM in order to utilise the hardware fully.
If your company can be considered a startup then take a look at Microsoft's Bizspark program as through that you can get all the Windows licenses for free. Yep, free. And it includes pretty much all of Microsoft's software offering, not just OSs, so you can get SQL licenses too. I bought my Sun boxes through Sun's own startup program at reduced cost. I cut down the price for the hardware further by purchasing the hard disks elsewhere. But then maybe you are not as skint as I am :-) Cheers Stefan On 2 Nov 2009, at 19:46, Jeremy Keith wrote: > > Greeting, seen how adobe's help group is about as helpful on this > subject as a box of rocks... > > We're looking to replace our dedicated CF server and it's partner > dedicated SQL server. > > The servers run two websites, that are both very query heavy, > looking at some dual proc dell R710s to replace each. > > Win 2k8 web on the web server > Win 2k8 STD on the SQL server running sql 05 or 08 > > What recommendations other then 64bit OS and a ton of ram in the > sql box would you recommend? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of Fusion mailing lists Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:327917 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
