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[amirk999]

I will be moving into a co-located server soon because I want to offer more for less.
I will be hosting 100 clients max (will probably be around 60-80)
Here are a few server configurations that fit my budget.
These are in the $1200-1350(CAD) range:


Server 1 - Dual Pentium III's
DUAL (2) Intel Pentium III 1GHz Processors
Micron USA 168-Pin SDRAM
512MB PC133Mhz 7.5ns Learn More
DUAL (2) 40GB ATA100 EIDE
Sony 52x
1.44MB Floppy
ATI Xpert AGP On-Board Video
Dual (2) Intel 10/100BT PCI NICs
TYAN 2505T
Razor Mid-Tower Server
300-Watt ATX Power Supply
Onboard Promise RAID ATA100
TYAN S2505T Mainboard
Server 2 - Pentium 4 HT
Intel Pentium 2.4GHz Processor
Hyper-Threading Platform
800MHz Front Side Bus
512MB PC3200 DDR Memory
(2) 80GB Serial ATA150 7200RPM RAID Hard Drives (8MB Cache)
Onboard Serial ATA150 RAID Controller Card
Black 52X CD-ROM Drive
Black 3.5" 1.44MB Floppy Drive
32MB ATI 4X AGP Video Card
10/100 Mbps Ethernet NIC Learn More
Black Full Tower chassis w/ 400-Watt P4 Power Supply

Now I can pay $200 more for these servers:
Server 3 - More Powerful Dual PIII's
DUAL (2) Intel Pentium III
1GB (1024MB) PC133Mhz 7.5ns Micron USA 168-Pin SDRAM
DUAL (2) 80GB ATA100 7200 RPM
Sony 52X (Beige)
1.44MB Floppy (Beige)
Onboard ATI Rage Xpert AGP
DUAL (2) Intel 10/100BT NICs
Onboard Promise RAID ATA100
TYAN 2505 T DUAL PIII
300 Watt ATX Power Supply

Server 4: Dual Athlon MPs
Dual AMD Athlon® MP 1800+ Processors
Tyan S2460—Dual Athlon MP Motherboard
512MB PC2100 DDR Memory
Dual 40GB ATA133 IDE Hard Drives
52x CD-ROM Drive
3.5" 1.44MB Floppy Drive
32MB AGP 4x Video
10/100 Fast Ethernet NIC
ATA133 Promise EIDE RAID Card

I know the Athlon MPs will have the best performance, but for a pretty small host (max 100 clients), which one would be better for me?

Thanks

[rghf]

It depends on what sort of sites your are running. If they are mostly static content I would go for the lowest spec box but push the ram to 1GB. You can never have to much RAM

Rus

[amirk999]

It will be just normal hosting, no IRC, Streaming audio/video or gameservers.

[rusko]

dont get the dual AMDs, you can *not* get a stable 1U dual amd box for that price. i suggest (strongly) that you up the ram to 1gb and the cpu specs to 1.13ghz tualatins (the extra L2 cache really counts). if you were to do this, you would have a really beefy box at an excellent price.

paul

[amirk999]

actaually, those are all tower cases
I haven't checked 1U servers yet. I'll see what I can find from 1U servers and will compare the features.

[DaHOST]

Check out colomachines. I heard their 1u servers were good.

[amirk999]

Here is a good one I found. These are all Vision and Cybertron servers, that is all I found.

Dual (2) AMD MP 2200+ Processors
512MB PC2100 DDR ECC Registered Memory
Dual (2) 80GB ATA100 7200RPM IDE RAID Hard Drives
Black 52X CD-ROM Drive
Black 3.5" 1.44MB Floppy Drive
32MB ATI 4X AGP 3D Video Graphics
10/100Mbps Ethernet Controller
Black 2U Rackmount Chassis w/ 300-Watt P4 Power Supply

Or a Pentium 4 2.4GHz, 512mb ram and a single 80GB hard for a bit cheaper. I can upgrade the ram and add a second hard to the Pentium 4 system and it would be around the same price as the Athlon MP.

How is that?