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What does everyone think about the following specs for a web server that will host 100's of small websites:
AMD Sempron (Socket'A') or AMD64 (Socket'939') (3000+)
Motherboard with VGA/LAN/SATA/RAID
2Gb RAM
400GB SATA Hard Drive
2U Case
Fedora Core 2/3
DirectAdmin Control panel
Coloacting at data centre
So what do you think about those specs and how much much should be spent on each componant. Any more advice?
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Simon Stirrat
Gaming PC
AMD Athlon 64 3000+ @ 2.1GHZ
1GB (512MB x2, Dual Channel, DDR)
ASRock 939SLI-eSATA2
Inno3d 7600GS
WD 40GB HD
Cheap Ebuyer Case + PSU
Windows XP 64bit/Ubuntu Dapper 32bit
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The specs of the server seem fine. The software, well meh. You might want to look into purchasing RedHat corporate edition, I believe a lot of hosting companies use it.
As for the control panel softwae, you have made a good choice. I have used 4 different CPs. These include, 1&1s CP, Cpanel X, Plesk and DirectAdmin. My current host recently changed from Plesk to DirectAdmin, and it's a very good choice.
What connection will this server be hosted on?
MJCweb
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I would agree that using Fedora probably isn't too good an idea, since I've always found it somewhat buggy.
I would suggest White Box Linux. It's identical to the commercial distros Redhat charge huge amounts of money for and it'll cost you nothing.
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David Johnson
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Just a bit of advice - im dont know if you plan to have this server running form home but if so spend most of your money on a proper DSL internet connection, otherwise any serious traffic will crash your sites regardlesss of the hardware serving them :-)
Cheers,
Tom
My Crime is that of curiosity, my crime is that of outsmarting you
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