Hi Mark,
Thanks for your advice, time and effort reverting me a valuable comment.
You are right. I am going to assemble a web server serving a small
community at start. Most the homepages hosted shall be static pages, not
many animation, sound, video clip, etc. I will consider your advice
targeting on i/o system, acquiring high speed HD at 10,000 rpm above and
with cache memory of 2MB above running on SCSI and 500MB above RAM. Hoping
that you can throw me some light on following points:
1) Whether motherboard with build-in adapter SCSI is preferable or with
plug-in SCSI card. The later will be more flexible
2) What kind of SCSI, Ultra-wide or SCSI-II
3) What will be the speed of CPU and model, Pt III, Pt II, Celeron, AMD
K6-2, K6-3 or K7
4) Can also a Web Server be used as ISP (Mail) server
5) Any recommendation on software, Apache or any others. Is box available
on market.
Thanks in advance
B.R.
Stephen Liu
----- Original Message -----
From: Mark Cooke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Stephen Liu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, October 30, 1999 10:03 PM
Subject: Re: Dual CPU motherboard for web server
> On Sat, 30 Oct 1999, Stephen Liu wrote:
>
> > Can any guy recommends me a Dual CPU motherboard for web server running
on
> > Linux with following spec. in brief
>
> Firstly - I assume you've looked at the type of web serving you're
> going to be doing?
>
> If you're beating out mostly static pages, then you're not going to
> gain much by having 2 processors, and would be better advised spending
> the money on your i/o system - scsi / raid.
>
> If you're doing lots of CPU intensive CGI's / databasing, then I'd go
> with a dual celeron on a BP6 motherboard - though if you're worried
> about Intel pulling the SMP support from the celeron, then you'll want
> a slot-1 based board. Personally, I've have a dual slot 1 gigabyte
> BXD on my desk since January, and have been happy with it. It's *not*
> particularly heavily used though.
>
> > Dual AMD K6-2 400-450
>
> K6's can't do SMP. There is no chipset / mobo available to support it.
>
> > or
> > Dual Intel Pt II 400-450
> > 32 bits AGP slot
> > Dual on board ATA 33/66
>
> ATA 66 - only board I know that has this onboard is the Abit BP6. It's
> socket 370 (celeron) only though.
>
> > Moderate price
>
> BP6 is good for price. We recently deployed 3 dual-celeron 433 BP6
> boxes for 3D-CAD workstations and they've been fine (SMNP bugs in the
> CAD software not withstanding).
>
> I really would recommend you do look carefully at how busy your
> definition of busy is though (and how busy you can actually be given
> the connectivity that the machine will have), and size the RAM and
> I/O system accordingly.
>
> Mark
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