From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 27 22:05:54 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D67E6106566C for ; Wed, 27 Jan 2010 22:05:54 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from pobox@verysmall.org) Received: from thing.verysmall.org (thing.verysmall.org [89.234.8.80]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A1CDB8FC17 for ; Wed, 27 Jan 2010 22:05:54 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [10.0.1.2] (p54A7F46D.dip.t-dialin.net [84.167.244.109]) by thing.verysmall.org (Postfix) with ESMTPA id B14F917024 for ; Wed, 27 Jan 2010 21:58:38 +0000 (GMT) From: Iv Ray Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2010 22:49:01 +0100 Message-Id: To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1077) X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1077) Subject: Opteron 1212 w/ 4 GB RAM X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2010 22:05:54 -0000 We are getting a new web server - Singe Dual Core Opteron 1212 w/ 4 GB RAM It will have - 2 x 250 GB SATA gmirror RAID 1 We will run - - Apache 2.x - PHP 5.x - PostgreSQL 8.x - Postfix 2.x We have a couple of questions- If we are more interested in stability than in features and performance - a) Is FreeBSD 8.0 the right for us, or shall we rather go for FreeBSD 7.x? b) Is i386 or amd64 the right way? Thanks! Iv