Back to tha listing.... =) Thank you everybody for the answers.
About the prices, in Brazil we have MercadoLivre (sort of a eBay).... Every kind of equipament here is more expensive because of both shipping and fees.. I've "translated" the prices to US dollar for you to know which choice will be the best cost-benefit option.... What I really like about the Sun Server was the size... any of the other will take me much more space... BUT, how the guys adviced me, the pictures can't tell how loud the fan can sound... The idea was really to learn something new... I've already used OBSD under i386 with really good results (about a year w/o restart)... I wonder if the other platforms are as good as i386, or even better, form the point of stability... Cheers, Felipe SP-Brazil On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 2:25 PM, Jeremy Chase <jeremych...@gmail.com> wrote: > Excellent email, but you didn't send it to the original author. I > included him on this forward. :) > > -- > Jeremy Chase > http://twitter.com/jeremychase > > > > > On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 1:15 PM, David Astua <dast...@gmail.com> wrote: > > 2010/11/5 Jeremy Chase <jeremych...@gmail.com>: > >> I have an emac that I just updated to 4.8 macppc, and it as expected, > >> it works great.B I used to run OpenBSD on an old ultra5, and it also > >> worked great. x86 might be the most common, but the other > >> architectures work very well too. > >> > >> For what you are doing it looks like all these machines will be fine > >> from a performance standpoint, but as Christopher said, the Athlon > >> will be the snappiest. I'd still get the Sun box though, assuming the > >> fan noise isn't a problem. > >> > >> -- > >> Jeremy Chase > >> http://twitter.com/jeremychase > >> > >> > >> > >> On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 9:14 AM, LeviaComm Networks <n...@leviacomm.net> > wrote: > >>> > >>> On 05-Nov-10 05:47, Felipe Mesquita de Oliveira wrote: > >>>> > >>>> C) Atlhon 64 X2 +5200, 2 GB RAM, 160Gb HD -> B US$ 320,00 > >>>> > >>>> The idea is to build an server with: WWW/Email/Firewall > funcionalities, > >> with > >>>> better stablity as possible. > >>>> > >>> > >>> You'll get a lot more performance out of the AMD X2. B Plus both i386 > and > >> AMD64 are still king in the commodity hardware market, and are a > dime-a-dozen > >> nowadays. B Literally everyone and their grandmothers own x86 based > hardware. > >> B The i386 platform has support for the most bits of hardware and > replacement > >> parts are stupidly easy to come by. > >>> > >>> -Christopher Ahrens- > >>> -Co-founder > >>> -LeviaComm Networks- > >> > >> > > > > I've got two old Sun servers one month ago, one of them is a Sunfire > > like the one you're planing to buy the other is a Netra X1 a bit less > > powerful. Coincidentally my desktop has the same configuration as the > > AMD you're mentioning, the performance of the desktop is a bit better, > > anyway i need to do some further testing. Because think the Sun would > > respond better under heavy load against the normal performance > > degradation on my desktop if there's a lot of requests. > > > > I'm just messing around with this non-traditional architecture, but > > take care of the fan noise stated above, the NIC's bundled in the Sun > > equipments are much better than most on-board NICs, also the LOM > > interface on the Sun servers is really nice. > > They're working smoothly! > > > > Where are you planning to buy the equipment? I notice that the prices > > for the equipments are a bit high (for eBay), or you've to pay a lot > > of shipping/taxes? > > > > I hope this helps. > > > > Best regards; > > -- David A. > > > > NOTE: If you bought the Sun server don't forget to get the RJ45 -> DB9 > > converter.
