From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Nov 29 08:10:42 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA10690 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 29 Nov 1998 08:10:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from max.phys.uu.nl (max.phys.uu.nl [131.211.32.73]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA10685 for ; Sun, 29 Nov 1998 08:10:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from A.R.Flobbe@phys.uu.nl) Received: from ruunat.phys.uu.nl (ruunat.phys.uu.nl [131.211.32.69]) by max.phys.uu.nl (8.8.7/8.8.7/hjm) with ESMTP id RAA02904 for ; Sun, 29 Nov 1998 17:10:30 +0100 (MET) Received: from localhost (flobbe@localhost) by ruunat.phys.uu.nl (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id RAA25736 for ; Sun, 29 Nov 1998 17:10:29 +0100 (MET) X-Authentication-Warning: ruunat.phys.uu.nl: flobbe owned process doing -bs Date: Sun, 29 Nov 1998 17:10:29 +0100 (MET) From: Sander Flobbe To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Please Recommend Hardware In-Reply-To: <3.0.3.32.19981126125306.0068965c@silk.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 26 Nov 1998, Eddie Lawhead wrote: > Could you please suggest some decent hardware for my new web server? My > budget will be approx $3000 Cnd. I do not need a video card (have one) or > sound. I will need a decent Network Card. will 128M RAM be good or should > I go higher...much higher. I will only run HTTPD FTD SSH. Check out: http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/handbook149.html You do not really need a fast cpu for an average webserver, but why bother if you can spend $3000? :-) You should really go for SCSI disks as those are more reliable. Two UW-SCSI 4,3 Gb IBM's will do... S. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message