Opteron 1212 w/ 4 GB RAM

[Sam Fourman Jr.]

On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 4:11 PM, Adam Vande More <amvandemore at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 3:49 PM, Iv Ray <pobox at verysmall.org> wrote:
>
>> We are getting a new web server -
>>
>> Singe Dual Core Opteron 1212 w/ 4 GB RAM
>>
>> It will have -
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>> 2 x 250 GB SATA gmirror RAID 1
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>> We will run -
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>> - Apache 2.x
>> - PHP 5.x
>> - PostgreSQL 8.x
>> - Postfix 2.x
>>
>> We have a couple of questions-
>>
>> If we are more interested in stability than in features and performance -
>>
>> a) Is FreeBSD 8.0 the right for us, or shall we rather go for FreeBSD 7.x?
>>
>> b) Is i386 or amd64 the right way?


I vote for 8.0. and amd64 even if you stay at 4GB

Sam Fourman Jr.