From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Apr 17 0: 8:46 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from reftech.refnet.co.uk (reftech.refnet.co.uk [195.74.101.39]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7564F37BB46 for ; Mon, 17 Apr 2000 00:08:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from simon@businessmeetings.com) Received: from reftech.co.uk (smtp.ref000000.enta.net [195.74.117.157]) by reftech.refnet.co.uk (8.9.3/8.9.1) with ESMTP id IAA17009 for ; Mon, 17 Apr 2000 08:08:33 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from simon@businessmeetings.com) Received: from vaio [10.0.0.35] by reftech.co.uk (FTGate 2, 2, 0, 1); Mon, 17 Apr 00 08:06:03 +0100 From: "Simon Clayton" To: Subject: Ideal world hardware recommendations Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2000 08:05:58 +0100 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) In-Reply-To: <38FAB1A8.EDAA8D00@talou.net> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2615.200 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG OK, here's a nice question. I have to build a webserver for a large site (moving from NT IIS/ASP/SQL Svr7 to FreeBSD/Apache/ MySQL - woohoo!). I could go out and spend a silly amount of money on a Compaq ProLiant 8000 or similar but I suspect that at the smallest hint of trouble the "sorry we can't support that O/S" excuse would be wheeled out. So my question is - what do you recommend, would you build it yourself or buy branded? What about particular hardware, mega fast processor? Hardware or software RAID? anything I should stay away from? etc. Any advice/opinion is welcome. Simon To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message