Re: Hardware recommendation for collocation

2009-02-10 Thread Scott Gifford
"Douglas A. Tutty" writes: > I'll intersperse comments on what I have sitting on my desk in front of > me: > > On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 01:42:57AM -0500, Scott Gifford wrote: [...] >> Beyond that not much matters; any fairly modern server will be fast >> enough. > > Perhaps you need to indicate

Re: Hardware recommendation for collocation

2009-02-10 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
I'll intersperse comments on what I have sitting on my desk in front of me: On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 01:42:57AM -0500, Scott Gifford wrote: > Obviously I need something that is well-supported by Debian. Ideally > I would like something with hardware drive mirroring (RAID 1), with > good suppot fro

Hardware recommendation for collocation

2009-02-09 Thread Scott Gifford
Hello, I'm considering purchasing a server to run Debian in a collocation facility. In the past I've either leased collocated servers, or just used whatever hardware was handy, but I haven't always been happy with that approach. I'm sure others have done this, and was hoping to get their advice