* Marcin <mig...@gmail.com> [2012-04-17 18:11]: > On 17 April 2012 09:35, Henning Brauer <lists-open...@bsws.de> wrote: > > * Marcin <mig...@gmail.com> [2012-04-17 08:59]: > > > What I am after: > > > * 2 sockets, > > what for? unless you run extremely heavy userland proxies, you don't > > get much (any) benefit, especially given that the one-socket machines > > are all 4core now. > Fair point. I am also planning to use single inbound and few OpenVPN > outbound > channels, however with AES-NI it should not be a problem for a single > socket server.
no, not at all. > > * RAID 1 SAS/SATA controller (2 hard drives are enough) > > what for? that increases complexity and thus chance to fail with no > > benefit. you have no precious data on those disks and have two > > machines. > Simply because those machines are going to be several hundreds miles away. > It is much easier to ask datacenre stuff to replace hard drive so it > rebuilds > and machine continues to run, instead of restoring it from a backup when > the single harddrive fails. well, as said, you are lowering the reliability and increase the chance of failure here. a good SSD likely lives longer than the computer around it. > > I'm very happy with Supermicro X9SC* based systems, with Xeon E3-1220 > > and an Intel SSD. Check with your local supplier for exact model > > options. Superior performance, 35W idle, no trouble whatsoever, fair > > pricing. > Thanks for that, this is a failsafe option, although I am looking more > towards IBM/HP/Dell so I can fullfill the requirement for support contracts. my supermicro sulier offers the very same support options. (and as usual it makes much more sense to have spares yourself, at least with a halfway significant number of machines around) -- Henning Brauer, h...@bsws.de, henn...@openbsd.org BS Web Services, http://bsws.de, Full-Service ISP Secure Hosting, Mail and DNS Services. Dedicated Servers, Root to Fully Managed Henning Brauer Consulting, http://henningbrauer.com/
