What platform for Gentoo Servers?

salik · n00b Joined: 26 Apr 2004 Posts: 24 Location: Poland

Hi All,

I got a couple questions about hardware best for servers runnig Gentoo Linux.

I plan to buy 4-6 boxes in rack for such a purposes:

1. firewall + apache/mysql/php + squid >= router
2. PDC (about 150 users)SAMBA/LDAP/CUPS
3. BDC
4. Server platform for System to Manage all things in firm
5. firewall + pdc

I want to use hardware RAID 1 or 5.
Maybe one more, but it also depends on costs

What would you advise me to buy. I would be grateful for any piece of advise.

Thx in advance.

Salik

GenTimJS · Guru Joined: 03 May 2003 Posts: 406 Location: NH, USA

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just stay as far away from intel/dell as you can and you will be fine ...
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ChiasmusHF · n00b Joined: 30 Dec 2004 Posts: 28

I'd say to grab an Athlon64 processor. If you get a mid-range one, you're not going to be taxing it too heavilly with anything you describe there.

If you're spending someone else's money or you're really serious about doing database stuff, you may want to spring for a pair of low-end Opterons: the parallel processing will really help out.

As for the rest, it's all a matter of how much money you have to blow on this thing and how much usage you're going to be doing.