Hardware Suggestions

[Dean Hamstead]

dell has fantastic customer service.

other people may feel differently, but we use all dell for our 100
or so rack mount servers.

Dean

On Wed, 19 Dec 2007 14:42:06 -0800, Michael Shafae <mshafae at fullerton.edu>
wrote:
> 
> Hi List,
> 
> I have a modest budget (less than $4K) to purchase a server that I
> would like to run FreeBSD on. I am an educational customer so I can
> get a little bit of a discount.
> 
> I need a system that will act as a host for my subversion repository
> and as the 'lab' web server (mix of static and dynamic pages) for me
> and my students. I will also need to use the system to host MySQL and
> PostgreSQL databases for students when I teach database courses. On
> occasion, a little bit of number crunching (triangular mesh
> processing) is done but nothing too terrible.
> 
> I would like at least 4GB of RAM and at least two CPU cores. My
> storage needs right now are modest (10 GB) but I expect this to grow
> by at least 1 GB per semester.
> 
> Currently I'm eyeing a Sun Fire X4200 M2, HP ProLiant DL365 or a Dell
> 2950. If anyone has any feedback or suggestions I would greatly
> appreciate it.
> 
> Michael
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