alternative to Cobalt
 

Hello all!



I have a question about using Cobalt servers for web and email. They are supporting around 2000 customers and just dont seem to be robust enough handle all that traffic. I have to restart sendmail and named on a regular basis. They lock up during the heavy mail times, 8:00 - 10:00 am. I have tried running the all the updates and increasing the qpopper nowait but that didnt work either.
And they dont have very good support. Is there an alternative to them, maybe a Sun Solaris machine? Any help would be great.

This is a Linux forum, so I doubt you'll find much sun support here :) Solaris 10 x86 should run on those boxes though as well as Sun's newer servers like the V20z.

Personally, I wouldn't pay Sun hardware prices for web and e-mail servers though!

The Cobalt machines run linux, but I need a server that is going to be the same as far as ease of use. Our customers admin they're own sites. Will the v20z do that?

The ease of use is down to software. All of the ease of use that was available in the Cobalt machines came down to the administration software and web interface that they shipped with. Your question may be a software one, not a hardware one :)

For solutions that might help you, have a look at webmin and cpanel (they solve two different problems, but I'm not sure which one you need)

The V20z is just a chunk of hardware. It has 2 Opteron processors which most web sites will never use. You'd be better off getting a cheap machine from supermicro or the like IMHO.

Thanks for your help. Im going to check out cpanel and maybe call the Sun Sales dept. Thanks