Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2000 09:24:08 -0400 (EDT) From: Greg Scott <gscott@guy.asimware.com> To: Artem Koutchine <matrix@chat.ru> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG, hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Motherborad/Memory/CPU for web hosting system Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.96.1000420091630.22784C-100000@guy.asimware.com> In-Reply-To: <002d01bfaabb$d3453e40$0c00a8c0@ipform.ru>
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> What I am thinking about right now is : Asus P2B-LS motherboard, > Pentium III above 500, 512MB ram, 1 SCSI 10GB, 1 SCSI 30GB, > 1 UDMA IDE AS BIG AS IT CAN BE for backup. The main problem > is the motherboard. I just don't see any alternative and that;s bad. I'd > like > to have a choice. It seems like the newer i820 bases motherboards from Asus > have SCSI contrller Ultra160 which is not supported by 3.4 ( i'd rather no > go with 4.0). But on the other hand BX is kind old now. > > If you have some experience with hosting a lot of web servers, please, share > the hardware config with me. We just recently put together a machine with the following: SuperMicro P6DGU Dual Slot1 440BX Board with AIC-7890 SCSI PentiumIII 600 512M of ECC RAM DPT RAID Card 3 x 9.1G AtlasV SCA Drives Seagate 12G DAT Drive Intel Pro Server Ethernet Card Elan Vital S30 Rackmount case with HotSwap Kit It's a very nice box that will be doing mostly transactions. Because of the RAID card I can only run FreeBSD 3.2 on it, but it's pretty sweet. The only other problem is the Coppermine processors will not work in Dual mode at this time.. regardless of the Slocket adapter you try. BX may be kind of old now, but it works and there is lots of support for it in the OS. You could also look at Tyan motherboards. I've used them in a number of different systems for different things. They make good stuff. If you are looking for a fault tollerant solution, go with the RAID setup.. it can really save your ass when it comes to downtime. ************************************************************** ** Greg Scott, ** Asimware Innovations Inc. ** ** Website Co-Ordinator ** 600 Upper Wellington Unit D ** ** Network Administrator ** Hamilton, Ontario Canada ** ** gscott@asimware.com ** L9A 3P9 ** ************************************************************** PGP Key http://www.asimware.com/pubkey_gscott.asc To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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