Gary, I have excellent experiences with IBM eServers xSeries. In general, they use intel XEON CPUs, the x325/x326 is using AMD Opteron CPUs. I think the 1U servers only have up to 2 drives, so you would have a mirrored set of them (RAID 1) and that's about it. If you need more drives, you probably have to go for either a 2U or 3U server or get a second (3U) drive cage with the appropriate number of drives. Your server will not be used that heavy though and you might be ok with 2 x 146 GB SCSI drives. All these servers have SCSI (UltraSCSI-320) drives these days. ATA/SATA drives are more for desktop PCs and such. 1400/day messages isn't a heavy loads, 5000/day hits isn't heavy either. The number of additional drives would depend on how much data you need to store. I think a single XEON will work just fine, you might opt for a dual core CPU, though. Best regards, Chris On Fri, 2006-08-11 at 15:12 +0100, Gary Stainburn wrote: > Hi folks > > I'm in the process of buying a new 1U rackmounted server for work. It will > run my > > mail server (exim/dovecot) with approx 120 users and 1400 emails per day with > Anti-virus done by Sophos/Sophie and Clanmav > Apache with PHP and Perl CGI accessing a Postgesql database with approx 3000 > hits per day. > > I'll be running FC5 on it. > > I'm looking for people's recommendations and experiences. Any I should go for? > Any I should avoid. > > I'm not bothered much about brand name. Build quality and performance are what > I'm more concerned about, specifically the web server and therefore the SQL > server - the schema/data contained with will become quite extensive. > > The areas I'm unsure of are things like: > > comparisons between Celeron and Xeon processors > benefits/drawbacks of multiple processors > benefits/drawback of RAID > type of HDD and their performance. > -- > Gary Stainburn > > This email does not contain private or confidential material as it > may be snooped on by interested government parties for unknown > and undisclosed purposes - Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act, 2000 > -- Chris Ruprecht -- chris@xxxxxxxxxxxx Network grunt and bit pusher extraordinaire
