don't buy hardware, look at renting a virtual private server. You will get stacks more bandwidth than you could otherwise afford and you get full root access and the ability to do a hard reboot. The processor will be very fast but the memory will be a bit limited, perfectly fine for PHP apps, but a big tomcat J2EE thing might need a bit more than the basic minimum. As it is on shared hardware it is eco friendly from a power and size point of view. I have a couple of Bytemark virtual servers and I am pleased with them, they have stood up to a couple of slashdottings (although I did need to boost the ram the first time that happened.) The Amazon EC2 stuff is interesting to play with, you can even start on a local Eucalyptus VM and move that to EC2 later which is a very interesting concept.
Alan. Chris Rowson wrote: > > On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 12:22 PM, doug livesey <biot...@gmail.com > <mailto:biot...@gmail.com>> wrote: > > Hi -- I may be looking to buy a web server for a number of web > apps (RoR served with Passenger & Apache) quite soon. > Could anyone advise me on what hardware to be looking for? > I would want decent speed, so good processors & RAM, and I would > like, if possible, for it to be quite clever about power usage. > Also (& isn't this always the kicker?) I don't want to spend a > fortune. > I'll say a few hundred quids, tops, for now, but I don't want that > to limit people's suggestions too much. > & if people have good resources for new & not-so-new machines I > could buy, that play nicely with Ubuntu, that would be great, too. > Cheers, > Doug. > > > Hi Doug, > > You could check out http://www.serversdirect.co.uk/ > > HP Proliant ML*** stuff there seems pretty cheap and servers that I've > looked at come with 3 years on site warranty (ymmv). > > Just be aware that at that price, any servers advertised as RAID are > likely to be using rubbish Windows orientated driver assisted fakeRAID > so you'll just be better off setting them up on software RAID. > > Your selection of hardware will be influenced by how mission critical > your applications are of course. > > Hope that helps > > Chris > -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
