I second that. I run an atom 330 with two gigs of RAM and two 500gig drives in a raid for development server at home is a 1u case. It performs great and its low power
Regards, Dain Bentley -----Original Message----- From: Jason Crawford [ja...@purebsd.net] Received: Wednesday, 30 Nov 2011, 12:33pm To: misc@openbsd.org [misc@openbsd.org] Subject: Re: Something similar to Soekris boards, for server applications On 11/30/11 11:27, Sime Ramov wrote: > Hello, I am looking for something in the spirit of Soekris boards, but > more suited for server applications, e.g. for hosting Django apps. > > Current net6501 is maxed out at 2 GB of RAM and 1.6 Ghz *single-core* > (two threads) atom. > > The reason I am considering Soekris is because dedicated servers are > often underused and idling. Few GB of memory, anemic processor and SSD > gets one a surprisingly long way, especially with properly chosen stack > and caching. > > So the general idea is: one Django app = one Soekris board. This is much > better than virtualization (bare metal forever) or putting more apps on > a big server. > > Some apps would run great on this, but a more powerful CPU and more > memory would be needed for more demanding workloads. > > Any recommendations for similar, but a bit more powerful and versatile > hardware (think one app = one hardware device)? Thanks. > Maybe look at this: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816101364 It's cheaper, has twice the RAM, 6 SATA ports, 1.8GHz Atom dual core. Oh, and rackmount case. -- Jason
