On 2018-11-22, Chris Bennett <[email protected]> wrote: > After digging into many pages source and I use NoScript, which has an > irritating side effect of actually hiding some of the JavaScript > present, I now see that they are using cloud hosting and some naughty > Google stuff. So I will get much more information about everything > probably next week since this is Thanksgiving weekend here. > > So I will be having to select hardware to purchase. > I was assuming that AMD was the right choice, but I wanted to be sure. > I saw the presentation about Intel and AMD on the website. Intel's > behaviour was surprisingly terrible.
For what you're talking about running, bugs in the web application are a far higher risk than cpu bugs. You are going to have a bunch more time/hassle getting a less-common arch (e.g. sparc64) doing what you need if you're not already familiar with it. Pragmatically if you're looking at cost-effective hardware you are going to be paying a bunch more and have a lot less choice with AMD-based servers. (And at least Intel are making microcode updates easily available which AFAIK AMD aren't doing..) I would probably be looking at a refurb couple-of-year-old poweredge or similar server for this (running amd64 not i386 of course). Spend the time thinking about what you *need* to run and how to best secure it, rather than worrying about things which already require a way into running code on the physical hardware to exploit.
