how would you spend $1000 on a server?

[ted leslie]

Consider just renting a cloud server. You can get something pretty decent for 20$ a month,
and can turn up another (for dev or load) in no time, then turn it down when not needed.
Building up a server, unless its for YOUR data center, is SO yesterday :)

Now if its for your data center (home?), consider a hp server off ebay.

tl

On Fri, 9 Jul 2010 13:40:56 -0400
Matt Price <moptop99-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I have about $1000 budgeted for a box that will mostly host a bunch of
> probably-low traffic websites, based on wordpress or maybe sometimes drupal,
> and some mailing lists.  I'm just wondering what sort of features I should
> aim for in such a box, if I want the hardware to last a couple of years:  is
> onboard RAID important?  Is a Xeon processor a big plus, or DDR3 memory?
> Should I be building the box myself & handpicking the hard drives etc., or
> are there particular manufacturers/retail outlets I swhould just trust?
> 
> if i can come in somewhat under $1000, that gives me a little extra money
> for a backup system and/or UPS, which I might or might not have to purchase
> out of this budget.
> 
> Appreciate all the help, as always.
> Matt
> 


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