On 1/27/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED]@cus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 1. OS - for sure ill be using CENTOS , "budget thing", though this is my > first time to be using the CENTOS distro (sounds like mentos =) )
If you're familiar with RHEL, then you've already used CentOS > 2. SCSI HD - do i need to buy a separate RAID Controller ? ( dont have > experience on this one) i believe linux support software based RAID > Controller. > I'll be using RAID1, since i only have 2 disk. If you intend to do RAID for your company, do it the hardware way - the initial cash out might be expensive but you will definitely appreciate it when it runs. It rarely fails. I used to handle 2 units of classic Dual Pentium Pro HP Server with a Segate RAID controller and after 8 years it still runs and keeps on going. They maybe very old servers but very very reliable. > 3. Manual Partitioning ? > Let say i have 2 hdd, can i put all my /var on the 2nd disk? since this > partition contains all my data for my server. This would depend on the RAID level of your choice. Most of the deployments I did were on RAID 5 so I always have a minimum of 3 physical drives. You can still do RAID if you have less and greatly depends on your needs (mail servers for example, have very little use of RAID 5 IMO). Jerome Gotangco [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mobile: +639196555242 GPG: 0xA97B69A0 _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
