RE: [gentoo-user] recommendatoin for a new server
El Nino mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear friends,i'm planning on buying a server for running gentoo(will b our 1st gentoo server) with a mail+dns server(1000mails/per day).i'm looking for sata raid,amd opteron around 1GB ram. has anyone built a server recently that worked?1) can anyone give me a suggestions for a good(cost-effective) server(good with gentoo). Mailservers are generally I/O bound. So getting fast disks will help. Spam checking is generally CPU bound. So getting fast CPUs will help. You should design your mail server around peak usage rate, say max number of emails per hour, instead of per day. That being said, 1000 mails/day is really low volume and any modern and not-so-modern (meaning PIII) server can do the job without breaking a sweat. No need to spend big $$$ for such a volume. HTH Eray -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] recommendatoin for a new server
Dear friends,i'm planning on buying a server for running gentoo(will b our 1st gentoo server) with a mail+dns server(1000mails/per day).i'm looking for sata raid,amd opteron around 1GB ram. has anyone built a server recently that worked?1) can anyone give me a suggestions for a good(cost-effective) server(good with gentoo). -- ...The future lies ahead. ___ Have you mooed today? \^__^ \ (oo) \___ (__) \ )\/\| |-w || || |2.6.14-gentoo-sinhalese-r1
Re: [gentoo-user] recommendatoin for a new server
built 20 blade-type servers. tyan tomkat motherboard with dual-core opteron processers and sata drives. also single-core. the single-core models ended up costing about a grand each, but 5 of them are supporting 500,000 web hits/day. On Saturday 12 November 2005 20:31, El Nino wrote: Dear friends, i'm planning on buying a server for running gentoo(will b our 1st gentoo server) with a mail+dns server(1000mails/per day). i'm looking for sata raid,amd opteron around 1GB ram. has anyone built a server recently that worked? 1) can anyone give me a suggestions for a good(cost-effective) server(good with gentoo). -- ... The future lies ahead. ___ Have you mooed today? \ ^__^ \ (oo) \___ (__) \ )\/\ | |-w | 2.6.14-gentoo-sinhalese-r1 -- John Jolet Your On-Demand IT Department 512-762-0729 www.jolet.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] recommendatoin for a new server
On Sun, 13 Nov 2005 08:31:10 +0600 El Nino [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i'm looking for sata raid,amd opteron around 1GB ram. I wouldn't worry about whether it's parallel or sata raid. If you need high i/o it needs to be SCSI. Otherwise either IDE or SATA works fine with little difference in performance between the two. Also, IDE/SATA drives will need to be replaced at a higher rate than SCSI drives. Just a fact of life. has anyone built a server recently that worked? 1) can anyone give me a suggestions for a good(cost-effective) server(good with gentoo). I've been using a Penguin computing 1U for almost 2 years now. And I run a home built dual Opteron - Tyan Thunder motherboard. Stay away from MSI and ASUS if reliability is a major concern. So far the only real problem has been one Opteron having a flakey memory controller. Only fails on specific things - emerging nvidia-glx/kernel. Replacing both cpus next week. Bob - -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] recommendatoin for a new server
El Nino wrote: Dear friends, i'm planning on buying a server for running gentoo(will b our 1st gentoo server) with a mail+dns server(1000mails/per day). i'm looking for sata raid,amd opteron around 1GB ram. has anyone built a server recently that worked? 1) can anyone give me a suggestions for a good(cost-effective) server(good with gentoo). I ebay'ed a nice HP DL360 recently as my new personal server with some break even paid web hosting. Dual 3.0Ghz Xeons, 4GB RAM, RAID card, and two 73GB 10k SCSI drives. $1500. kashani -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
