Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2007 10:46:38 +1100 From: Dean Hamstead <dean@fragfest.com.au> To: Michael Shafae <mshafae@fullerton.edu> Cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Hardware Suggestions Message-ID: <c2654e63924815954797804576cc3358@fragfest.com.au> In-Reply-To: <6FB9082B-F340-48B9-BB51-9E07851FD43C@fullerton.edu> References: <6FB9082B-F340-48B9-BB51-9E07851FD43C@fullerton.edu>
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dell has fantastic customer service. other people may feel differently, but we use all dell for our 100 or so rack mount servers. Dean On Wed, 19 Dec 2007 14:42:06 -0800, Michael Shafae <mshafae@fullerton.edu> wrote: > > Hi List, > > I have a modest budget (less than $4K) to purchase a server that I > would like to run FreeBSD on. I am an educational customer so I can > get a little bit of a discount. > > I need a system that will act as a host for my subversion repository > and as the 'lab' web server (mix of static and dynamic pages) for me > and my students. I will also need to use the system to host MySQL and > PostgreSQL databases for students when I teach database courses. On > occasion, a little bit of number crunching (triangular mesh > processing) is done but nothing too terrible. > > I would like at least 4GB of RAM and at least two CPU cores. My > storage needs right now are modest (10 GB) but I expect this to grow > by at least 1 GB per semester. > > Currently I'm eyeing a Sun Fire X4200 M2, HP ProLiant DL365 or a Dell > 2950. If anyone has any feedback or suggestions I would greatly > appreciate it. > > Michael > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hardware > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-hardware-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" -- http://fragfest.com.au
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