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| Thread ID: 51731 | 2004-11-28 20:34:00 | Server needed for a "good cause" | Spout (6433) | Press F1 |
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| 297388 | 2004-11-29 23:34:00 | Calm down, man. I'm not accusing Spout of fraud, but the actual idea here - sounds kinda like the Nigeria scams. Read the other threads - they seem to wonder why do they need a US$7000 server & why mention their budget - these things are usually confidential. I know I seem cynical - but I am in a committee that actually monitors these type of things & we came across something similar in Zambia 2 years ago - only they requested something for US$14000 & using the SA name. |
xtraka (1984) | ||
| 297389 | 2004-11-29 23:38:00 | Growly's got the right idea, when building/buying a server for use in corporate enviroment you need to take into account redundancy, can the SA afford to lose data? or have the server offline for a couple of hours? If all you want to do is share a internet connection and share some common files then any old box will do, but if the files be stored on the server are super important or you can't afford for it to be offline then you'll need to spend the big dollars. You'll need to at the very least consider a mirrored RAID array (or better) with some form of backup (probably tape). Depending on how often the sever is accessed you may need to consider upgrading the servers network connection and possibly implementing RAID 0+1 or better. george a Dell desktop might be ok for serving a rarely used IRC channel, but isnt exactly ideal for a network with 20 clients. |
Pete O'Neil (250) | ||
| 297390 | 2004-11-30 00:22:00 | I said a Dell server, not a Dell desktop. There is a massive, massive difference. In this case, a desktop machine would not suit the needs I don't think. And I didn't actually recommend it, but said that depending on the load, that COULD be a good way to go. They do offer redundancy, and can go up to very high spec machines perfectly suitable for a corporate environment. Just something to consider possibly. Cheers George |
george12 (7) | ||
| 297391 | 2004-11-30 00:46:00 | We serve a 4.5GB MS-SQL database off a Dual PII 450 with 512MB of RAM - hardly a powerhouse. If contains customer records for 10's of 1000's of clients and handles all authentication requests, invoicing, user time logs, billing, payments, call centre call logs etc. If you could tell people what you need it to do perhaps they might be able to provide you with more information. |
ninja (1671) | ||
| 297392 | 2004-11-30 00:48:00 | ^^ an aside to that The replacement for it is semi-built on the workstation next to me, it's a Dual Xeon 2.8 with a gig of RAM, hot swap SCSI in a RAID setup etc. Quite looking forward to that. (no the old one will not be available to a good home) |
ninja (1671) | ||
| 297393 | 2004-11-30 00:50:00 | >Growly's got the right idea Why thank you! Personally I do not believe that Dell servers are that great for server environments - something about the price that makes me worried bout how long they'll last. Then again, I don't really like Dell all too much (albeit unfairly), so I'm guessing there's a bit of bias in the force. |
Growly (6) | ||
| 297394 | 2004-11-30 01:14:00 | No offence Spout, but I can see xtraka's point about scams. A lot more information about their hardware and software reqiurements would be helpful... | BachelorNo1 (3913) | ||
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