Look on Ebay for Compaq 1850R 'rackmount' servers...
You can find one with 'dual' Pentium II CPU's, dual power supplies (which you can
plug into 2 different circuits or UPS's), and enough SCSI drive slots to provide the
disk space (and the different number of storage devices to 'mirror' and spread the
databases across) to handle the job. I picked up a couple of 'stripped down'
versions for around $1200 and then bid on the 'add ons'...
I have Redhat 6.2 (with all the patches) running on them, which have an 'uptime' of 6
months now... (except for when I rebooted them after updating the kernel). They're
usually about 99% idle at any given time... (the MySQL activity doesn't really make a
dent in their performance).
P.S. Order the latest Compaq 'ROM update' CD, which now adds Linux options to the
BIOS settings...
Daniel Mouw wrote:
> I need am looking for a server for virtual hosting of websites. Ideally it would be
>running Linux and be rack mounted. Right now we have a couple of websites that
>require database support on another companies server and we are looking at hosting
>them on-site. Currently we have a couple of racs for web hosting. If possible we
>would like to get 40-80 databases on one server. We are not looking at much traffic
>10 hits per minute or less for each site. We do web design for other companies, and
>it is mostly just dynamic web pages and E-commerce It is critical that it stays up,
>as we could lose a lot of revenue if it doesn't. We looked at raqs, but we want
>something with a little more processing power. Any suggestions on hardware would be
>appreciated and if I forgot anything important just E-mail me.
>
> Thank you
>
> Dan Mouw
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