Hi all,
this is a server I have my eyes on atm for a company being set up by my brother:
http://web6.scan.co.uk/Products/Info.asp?WPID=25564
It strikes me as being good value and quite a high performer, but I thought I should get a couple of other opinions first.
I have gone for the 1u form factor beacuse I'd like to be able to move into a colocation centre when the budget allows. Until then, and as traffic will be nil in the early days, I'm happy to keep a small rack of boxen in a 'dedicated' room on the office premesis.
So what do you think of this unit? I anticipate running Slackware 8.1/9. Has anyone had any experiences with linux on 845-chipset motherboards? I envisage buying 2 of these units -
- a web applications server w/ apache, php
- a MySQL database server
thanks,
christo