I built my dual celeron system for under $1000, that includes a SCSI card and 2 10G HDs only running 192M but that's because I don't need the extra onboard. The raid stack doesn't count because that was a gimme. Adam Maloney wrote: > > Heh... > > intel != high-end. > > But I think what you've got is really overkill. You've spec'd a server > that's capable of pushing far more bandwidth than you can afford, even > doing heavy database and dynamic pages. > > Almost everyone makes the same mistake when they start their own company. > The first thing you do is go out and buy pens/shirts/business cards with > your logo on them, and a server that's 10 times as powerful as is needed. > If you want to stay in business start with what you need. Grab a > home-grown P-200MHz with 128MB. Remember, you're not using NT so you > don't need a state-of-the-art machine to get decent performance :) > > When your company grows just grow the machine with it. There's no > business sense in having a machine that cost you an arm and a leg just sit > idle for 99.9% of the time picking it's nose. > > Adam Maloney > Systems Administrator > Sihope Communications > > On Tue, 19 Sep 2000, Yaron wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > On Tue, 19 Sep 2000 Nick.T.Reinking at supervalu.com wrote: > > > > > Greetings, all, I'm looking to build a server for an e-commerce > > > company that I'm thinking about starting up. Sadly, as I don't > > > have much experience running Linux on "high-end" machines, > > > > > > Sun. Sparc. Solaris. > > > > > > -Yaron > > > > -- > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: tclug-list-unsubscribe at mn-linux.org > > For additional commands, e-mail: tclug-list-help at mn-linux.org > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: tclug-list-unsubscribe at mn-linux.org > For additional commands, e-mail: tclug-list-help at mn-linux.org -------------- next part -------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: tclug-list-unsubscribe at mn-linux.org For additional commands, e-mail: tclug-list-help at mn-linux.org