Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2004 15:01:37 -0800 From: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> To: Melvyn Sopacua <freebsd-hardware@webteckies.org> Cc: FreeBSD-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Recommendation for Dual-CPU systems Message-ID: <20040106230137.GA6321@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> In-Reply-To: <200401062350.26773.freebsd-hardware@webteckies.org> References: <200401062350.26773.freebsd-hardware@webteckies.org>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 11:50:22PM +0100, Melvyn Sopacua wrote: > 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. We're using 64 of the Intel OEM 1U systems in our computing cluster. They are a little more expensive then some of the other options, but they have been very reliable for us. We had one DOA with what looked like a PS issue and one that had a stick of ram failed, but that's it about a year and a half. Any Tier-2 integrator should be able to order them, at least that's the case in the US. http://www.intel.com/design/servers/sr1300/index.htm?iid=ipp_srvr+srvrchassis_sr1300&; -- Brooks -- Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. PGP fingerprint 655D 519C 26A7 82E7 2529 9BF0 5D8E 8BE9 F238 1AD4 [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/+z5PXY6L6fI4GtQRAlxGAKCNvub7eIFnvyrwfXz93u05tj1fbgCfQS+T YfIq5p7hITh4g8k9VE28toI= =iImN -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----help
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