Hi ppl, I'm going to build a new server for a small company that are going to sell music and have a very tight budget. But I'm not going to sacrifice stability and performance. -Easy?
Alrigt, normaly I build them on Redhat since there most vendors of disc controllers, net dito and so on are only providing with drivers for Redhat or Suse. Clients are always Debian (I guess most people do the oppisite). Requirements: 2 x 2.8 GHz XEON, 512 KB 2 GB Ram (should preferably be possible to upgrade to 6 GB but 4 GB is acceptable) Raid 1 for system minimun 4 GB and database minimum 16 GB Raid 5 for filestorage minimum 200 GB My quetion is: what should I buy since I would like to use a vanilla kernel from Debian (yes I can loose performance and so on, but it helps us if we have to do a disaster recovery) What hardware should I buy? Raidtools f�r root disc, swap? or hardware raid, which one? Filesystem for system, db, filestorage? ext3, reiserfs or xfs (i like reiserfs but xfs is really nice on SGI, but needs to compile in to the kernel) IDE,SATA or SCSI or mixed? Which SATA controller works fine under Debian? Highpoint RocketRAID 1820 - PCI-X Does HOT-Swap works on SATA/IDE Sorry for this long email but I hope and guess all you ppl hav good ideas! Cheers, Joakim Nordberg -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
