On 23 May 2009, at 16:56, Alan Bell <alan.b...@theopenlearningcentre.com> wrote:
> 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/ I totally agree with that. I use FSCKVPS and pay about £6 a month for 512mb ram. Great service and prices. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
