Hardware Recommendations for a School Server?

Posted by Cliff on Wednesday June 25, 2003 @11:23AM from the maximizing-horsepower-at-minimal-cost dept.

nychef asks: "My school has decided to give me money to set up a server for my club. I'll be running e-mail for about 250 people, and webpages for about 100 which will mostly be static webpages, but there will be a few dynamic ones. I am trying to figure out just how powerful I need the hardware to be. They gave me a pretty decent budget, but my budget is to include the internet line. So I want to maximize bandwidth and minimize the cost of the server. I am looking in the range of dual P4 2.8's with a 3 disk RAID5 stack and 1 GB of ram. Is this adequate or overkill?" nychef has a budget of about $4,000. What kind of hardware and bandwidth options do you think he can afford?

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Re:bandwidth by CounterZer0 · 2003-06-25 11:40 · Score: 4, Interesting

As far as the number of people that box can support - that's absolutely insane, unless you get hundreds of thousands of hits per minute on your websites, and they are all hitting some kind of back end database. RAID5 is good for redundancy, 1gb of RAM is cheap, but Dual P4's is a waste of money for that setup.