Topic: Help with Hardware Selection - AGAIN !!

[mizou]

Hi,

I am about to buy a new server for our business and have searched and read up a few topics about hardware selection for SME. They are a few months old and some of it went a bit over my head, such as http://forums.contribs.org/index.php?topic=17131.0.

Here is a summary of my requirements..  any help or advice would be appreciated.

We currently run Ver 6.0 Final and hosting 2 websites with e-commerce (OSCommerce)with approx 2000 products (mysql/php)all with pictures, all with downloadable pdf datasheets (average 150kb each). We have an average of 400 visitors per day viewing ~15 pages each and this is due to increase from the end of the month (triple perhaps??). My stats shows that the current visitors use about 80MB per week.

We have a sales team of 10 located all over Australia and using moregroupware (www.moregroupware.org). They receive an average of 25 emails each per day.

My connection is an SDSL with Internode (www.internode.com.au) 512kb/512kb.

$$ I have a budget of AUD$3000 (~US$2100)for this new server

Any suggestions?

Thanks

Mizou  

[mbachmann]

Go buy a server with 2/4 or more SCSI disks á 40 GB or more, Raid Array for disk-mirroring, about 1 GB Ram, one  1.6 Ghz and up or two 1.0 Ghz CPUs, 2 Ethernet ports and a tape drive. Any small/midrange server would suffice, avoid IDE HD, avoid bleeding edge hardware such PCI-X. Gigabyte, Asus, Dell, IBM, HP/Compaq and others do sell such machines, check local vendors also.

You should consider buying a 24 hour support or better and maybe a written consent that SME will run/is supported on the machine would be a good idea. The HP machine below is just an example, i am not related to HP nor do i recommend HP Servers. If you configure the ProLiant ML330 G3 to fit your needs, it comes out with 2300$, 4 hour response, 3 yr warranty, 2nd drive, tape drive, Array Controller. You can also go for ML110 or tc2120. http://h18004.www1.hp.com/products/servers/platforms/index-tc.html

If your not sure what to choose, just ask.

[ddelorme]

I just bought a p4 2.4c 800mhz fsb asus p4p800vm motherboard, 512 ram could use more

i use software raid 2-120 hd
I dont know if you can use sata with linux but is a lot cheaper than scsi.

I works like a charm.

os sees the Hyper thearding cpu as CPU0, CPU1
cost less harddrive
$650 canadian Eh.

[Bugi]

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