TM Server

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Mon, Sep 20, 2004 at 01:14:55PM -0700, Frank Peng wrote:
> About Linux MySQL server, I would suggest:
> 
> 1. Better hardware than fancy technology such as Raid
> The rule is that the simple the better. If you have a
> good hard drive, you cannot break it for 20 years. Why
> bother with these fancy stuff? I suggest you choose
> the best every piece of hardware. 

Unbreakable harddrive?  Where do you buy one of those?  (or in other
words that sounds like a load of crap).

> 2. Stable software better than the latest buggy
> version. The simple the more stable. The more function
> the more problems.

That is certainly true.  I would need a good reason to use apache 2.x
over 1.3 myself.  Similar for other software.

> 3. Never use anything else except Slackware Linux. It
> is a crazy stable distribution. You start your project
> on a 32MB Slackware computer, test out then move to
> your new server.

Some of us have better things to do...

> 4. Usually, software has more fuction than you want,
> such as MySQL. 
> 
> Based on this, I suggest you buy a best HP low end
> server better than top end desktop. 

Hmm, never personally found HP to make particularly good hardware, but
that's my taste I guess.  I don't even like brand name complete systems
much.  Well HP does make some durable hardware, I just don't like the
way it works by design.  It is often going to keep working the same
anoying but reliable way for ever though.

Lennart Sorensen
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