Alan wrote:
http://www.ontracks.co.uk> If non-IA32 is the only criteria, then pick up
a small SPARCstation or
Netra 1, or a MIPS-based SGI. All are cheaper to operate than the MP3K,
and all are well supported (and run Herc passably well).
There are a couple of perhaps saner options - an old PPC mac (new ones
are x86-64), or a current Sparc box (very nice but not cheap) and
some will run latest Linux stuff
With Intel hardware, you get what you pay for. If you buy good stuff --
tolerably good used xSeries boxes or HP DL-class boxes go for about
$250-300 on eBay -- then it's very reliable. If you use off the shelf
I'd second that comment.
This is the uptime on my build server today:
23:34:45 up 701 days, 5:02, 4 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00,
This isn't a generic random cheap PC board but a high end motherboard,
dual opteron processors with AMD approved fans, ECC memory, and two SCSI
controllers driving RAID5 arrays in hotswap chassis. The case is a proper
server case with extra temperature controlled fans. The whole thing is on
a large UPS.
You get what you pay for (sometimes)
I'd expect to get something like that on my random cheap* hardware, if
it were on a sufficiently durable UPS. At present, I can't get stay up
more than half an hour or so without mains power.
* Not too cheap; when buying it's consumer-grade, but I pick my brands.
I think Jay's concern with IA32/AMD-64 is that if someone does inject
precompiled binaries, he doesn't want them to actually be able to run.
There are folk who will argue that getting the right precompiled
binaries is trivial.
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Cheers
John
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