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I am currently preparing to purchase my first colo server.
What I am strongly considering purchasing: AMD Dual-Core Opteron 165 1.8Ghz 2x 1M L2 Cache, On-die Memory Controller 2 gig ram Motherboard: Tyan Tomcat K8E S2865G2NR Socket 939 Server Board, nVidia nForce 4 Chipset 2pcs Western Digital 250G SATA HDs WD2500SD, 7200rpm, 8-Meg Buffer, Pre-Configured OS Software RAID 2x 250G Linux OS Software RAID1,250G Capacity on-board nVidia SATA-II 3G/Sec Controller Chassis/Drive Bays/Cooling/Power Supply: SuperMicro SC811T-260 1U Rackmount Chassis 2x hot-swap SATA carriers & backplane 1x slim CD bay, 1x open FDD bay 2x 4200rpm 10cm System Blower Fans SuperMicro 260watt 1U Power Supply Thoughts? |
My only thought is if you can swing it financially, I would go with a 2xx series processor and a 940 series Mobo, which will give you the ability (if needed in the future) to drop in a second physical processor, just for starters. :) I also prefer the Supermicro Mobo's after researching and originally wanting Tyan (thunder in my case).
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We just purchased a new database server for our sites with dual 265 opterons and a 15k SCSI RAID 10 set up. We are moving up from a dual 2.4 xeon with 10k SCSIs in RAID 5. I think we'll be extremely happy with the results from everything I have been reading about the opteron performance!
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Thanks for the link Erwin, I'll be shopping for some new servers this summer. They look good and I may end up going with them. :)
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I'm very impressed! We are now fully on our new Opteron server and it is impressively fast! We had (2) dual xeon web servers, one for web & the other for data bases, and this single server absolutely blows them out of the water. My sites have never loaded so fast!
I'll probably do a full report on the move, specs, etc shortly. Oh, and we're successfully running WHM / cPanel with 64bit CentOS. I'm just really happy and impressed and we have not even really optimized the server or migrated the databases to the /data hard drives. All of my forums are currently running with the OS on a pair of raid-1 drives. Things should be even quicker once the data is moved to the 4 15k SAS drives running raid-10. If you like speed and performance, go Opteron & some fast drives and you will not regret it. |
For databases, the secret is in the drives. :) 15k SCSI.
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Yup! They're awesome!
I think I am going to have to purchase a couple more built with 15k drives & opterons. ;) I'm in Love. lol |
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The reason we have our own servers is that, that way we can have the specification we need ie lots of memory and processor but relatively small fast SCSI disks. Last year we purchases a couple of lower end dual Xeon machines which have turned out to be completly useless in comparison to the Opterons which in the same configuration are now cheaper. |
yup opterons are best bang for the buck in terms of performance to price ratio compared to xeons :)
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