From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 27 22:20:16 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 86752106566C for ; Wed, 27 Jan 2010 22:20:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from sfourman@gmail.com) Received: from mail-px0-f183.google.com (mail-px0-f183.google.com [209.85.216.183]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5D1B48FC19 for ; Wed, 27 Jan 2010 22:20:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: by pxi13 with SMTP id 13so34846pxi.3 for ; Wed, 27 Jan 2010 14:20:16 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=AoMrVPYCL3SCUewV0jZCoOT5nOuUBW7ZrUXlkSxYzWA=; b=OSCfuTVqLmYaWhBYV2jhaQ0byZlk3x+Hq5lbAR7Jo++/7MDDVPfVp8Y91cmm2QNw0d TC7iTJk62zGqsLr0DBE22fQWqths0CeLhNgXcyefJtIGRYkX/XwTuQ6G/ndxVJ9KIQ34 s8uEMoJY5s4RYfOPU1YxSuc/ufBxP91A6vrn4= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; b=D1jRft3VB8AWctTdt/7l6cbRlI+1MBk661jLVv4BFGcMA5YykDjKymVzft57ceJif5 fH4kltdtHIZ8+jY8sRTj3ae6v1HrcqksvV0IgMFVZW71LKqecflVUPODKzTo7DNKP7el sLZEmUch0uhV5fbacognHs4D1DMH72DtZEH8I= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.142.119.41 with SMTP id r41mr644240wfc.150.1264630815911; Wed, 27 Jan 2010 14:20:15 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <6201873e1001271411ya202dcy901c46a097d83bce@mail.gmail.com> References: <6201873e1001271411ya202dcy901c46a097d83bce@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2010 16:20:15 -0600 Message-ID: <11167f521001271420t2bb4be50maf6aa18381ca9830@mail.gmail.com> From: "Sam Fourman Jr." To: Adam Vande More Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Cc: Iv Ray , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 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 22:20:16 -0000 On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 4:11 PM, Adam Vande More wrote: > On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 3:49 PM, Iv Ray wrote: > >> 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? I vote for 8.0. and amd64 even if you stay at 4GB Sam Fourman Jr.