[gentoo-user] recommendatoin for a new server

[gentoo-user] recommendatoin for a new server

[El Nino]

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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).



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Re: [gentoo-user] recommendatoin for a new server

[John Jolet]

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).
>
>
>
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Re: [gentoo-user] recommendatoin for a new server

[Bob Sanders]

On Sun, 13 Nov 2005 08:31:10 +0600
El Nino <adaptit@gmail.com> 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
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Re: [gentoo-user] recommendatoin for a new server

[kashani]

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
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RE: [gentoo-user] recommendatoin for a new server

[Eray Aslan]

El Nino <mailto:adaptit@gmail.com> 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

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