On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 1:23 PM, mike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You can serve 30 users on a 400 dollar box? Send me those specs.. >
Well, you have to identify how those users are being supported. Is it an email server? A database server? A file server? Are they all using Remote Desktop to run all their applications there? Are they editing documents on the server directly? If you can identify the use, people on here can answer you better. 30 users running programs on their PCs that access a central database regularly can be supported on a MySQL or PostgreSQL machine with 2 GB RAM, dual core, enough disk storage. You can certainly buy something like that new from Dell for under $400, on sale. Servers generally don't need dedicated monitors. If you need it for files that are networked to local PCs as the Z: drive, and the users are editing the files (in Quicken or Word or whatever) directly off the server, then you don't even need that. 1 GB RAM will do just fine. I once setup an old computer as a file server, a couple of years ago. It had 256 MB RAM and maybe a 100 or 250 GB hard drive. I added another network card because network I/O seemed to be the bottleneck. It wasn't used 24/7, but when new versions of the files stored on there were available, over 100 users were accessing it simultaneously, though just to download. Still being used for that purpose with no discernable impact on the users. -- John DeCarlo, My Views Are My Own ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
