I am almost certainly going to be replacing with a new server for an organization I am a member of. With all of this mess with Meltdown, Spectre, insecure motherboard chips,etc. I am pretty clueless on exactly what is going to be a secure set of server hardware. Intel, well no. AMD? I have read about problems with non-CPU chips being compromised. Another architecture? I have never used anything other than Intel/AMD.
The server will run httpd, mailserver, PostgreSQL and somehow a good way for well encrypted messaging at times. It is very likely to run out of Austin, Texas. I think that having a direct connection would be best, but would a proper setup make collocation OK? This isn't going to be my server, I will just be in charge. That's completely new for me. Any advice is really welcome, everywhere I read anything, hardware seems broken and insecure. Thanks a bunch for any help, Chris Bennett
