New Server For Hosting Purposes
January 27, 05 by kenrichWell, today was the day that I bough a new server for our hosting business. I wanted to get a dual Xeon server (probably a Dell 2650) to provide optimum performance, but instead I opted for a much cheaper Dell 2450. It provides all of the same reliability and fault tolerance as the more expensive server except it runs a little slower.
I decided to buy all new drives for the RAID array. I purchased 3 36GB Seagate Cheetah SCSI hard drives to go into the server for a RAID 5 array with a capacity of 74GB. This will be the true capacity because the SCSI drives are rated at their formatted capacity. I also purchased the drive trays that will be needed for the additional drive bays being used.
One benefit of buying an older server, the replacement parts are cheaper and it is compatible with a lot of our other servers so we can exchange parts. We really needed to replace our current linux server and add something promising more reliability. Once the server and all of the parts get here I will be busy putting Linux on the new server and setting up all of the services.
By the way, the difference between the dual Xeon and the dual Pentium III server is about triple the cost.
