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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--Boundary-02=_yuz+/Dj49oLA/MT Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Hi, we're looking around for our next hardware generation and don't like to=20 reinvent the wheel. The current generation is very stable, but the one befo= re=20 that had problems, prolly in the motherboard, which we never we're able to= =20 solve, using various BSD flavours. The machines will primarily do webserving, which means php/apache with some= =20 postfix mail for alerts. Most of the sites will be MySQL backed, which will= =20 run on different servers. The busiest site handles about 6GB of traffic per= =20 day (600k requests for content only - seperate grafics server), consisting = of=20 primarily of news. Others vary greatly. The reason for the dual CPU is that we want to be able to host more per=20 machine, to reduce maintenance. We have done some orientation and experienc= e=20 with ASUS boards, but the results are very variable. We're looking for systems in the Netherlands, price range 1500 - 2500 euro'= s,=20 1 or 2u 19" rackmount systems. We've also informed with Dell, but they won't support FreeBSD, so my questi= on=20 is twofold: 1) I still see a lot of people on the lists working with Dell machines, so = how=20 do they work around the "no support" issue? Is this really an issue when a= =20 disk crashes or some other hardware component? 2) Does anybody know of a hardware supplier that DOES support FreeBSD,=20 preferably operating in The Netherlands. Also - if anybody wishes to share the hardware setup that they're working w= ith=20 for similar tasks, based upon an Intel P-IV or Xeon >=3D 2.4GHz, I'd welcom= e=20 that. Many thanx in advance. =2D-=20 Melvyn =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D =46reeBSD sarevok.webteckies.org 5.2-CURRENT FreeBSD 5.2-CURRENT #3: Tue De= c 30=20 14:31:47 CET 2003 =20 root@sarevok.idg.nl:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/SAREVOK_NOAPM_NODEBUG i386 =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D --Boundary-02=_yuz+/Dj49oLA/MT Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Description: signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQA/+zuyOv9JNmfFN5URAgcYAJ926p7Pi4h9E/vx2as30DvULMC29gCgpJ9N gFPe8RGQkalA2M4A7oXIxgY= =2L+A -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Boundary-02=_yuz+/Dj49oLA/MT--
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