Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2004 23:50:22 +0100 From: Melvyn Sopacua <freebsd-hardware@webteckies.org> To: FreeBSD-hardware@FreeBSD.org Subject: Recommendation for Dual-CPU systems Message-ID: <200401062350.26773.freebsd-hardware@webteckies.org>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] Hi, we're looking around for our next hardware generation and don't like to reinvent the wheel. The current generation is very stable, but the one before that had problems, prolly in the motherboard, which we never we're able to solve, using various BSD flavours. The machines will primarily do webserving, which means php/apache with some postfix mail for alerts. Most of the sites will be MySQL backed, which will run on different servers. The busiest site handles about 6GB of traffic per day (600k requests for content only - seperate grafics server), consisting of primarily of news. Others vary greatly. The reason for the dual CPU is that we want to be able to host more per machine, to reduce maintenance. We have done some orientation and experience with ASUS boards, but the results are very variable. We're looking for systems in the Netherlands, price range 1500 - 2500 euro's, 1 or 2u 19" rackmount systems. We've also informed with Dell, but they won't support FreeBSD, so my question is twofold: 1) I still see a lot of people on the lists working with Dell machines, so how do they work around the "no support" issue? Is this really an issue when a disk crashes or some other hardware component? 2) Does anybody know of a hardware supplier that DOES support FreeBSD, preferably operating in The Netherlands. Also - if anybody wishes to share the hardware setup that they're working with for similar tasks, based upon an Intel P-IV or Xeon >= 2.4GHz, I'd welcome that. Many thanx in advance. -- Melvyn ======================================================= FreeBSD sarevok.webteckies.org 5.2-CURRENT FreeBSD 5.2-CURRENT #3: Tue Dec 30 14:31:47 CET 2003 root@sarevok.idg.nl:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/SAREVOK_NOAPM_NODEBUG i386 ======================================================= [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQA/+zuyOv9JNmfFN5URAgcYAJ926p7Pi4h9E/vx2as30DvULMC29gCgpJ9N gFPe8RGQkalA2M4A7oXIxgY= =2L+A -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----help
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