We're building two kick-ass Linux machines.
These two machines will have to handle, between them:
o two busy web sites,
o DNS for two or three domains,
o some CVS trees + project home pages + mailing lists for a couple of
small open source projects
o email/pop3 hosting for about 100 accounts.
o possibly some Linux ftp mirrors in future
Do you see any compatibility/performance problems with:
- Dual 500MHz Pentium-III
- Either:
Gigabyte GA-6BXDS dual P-III
with builtin adaptec AHA 7895 dual channel UW SCSI
Or:
GA-6BXDU / GA-6BXDW
with builtin adaptec AHA 7896 dual channel U2 SCSI
- RAM (is 128MB enough for each of the machines, or do we need more?)
- Promise ATA-66 with 2 x IBM Deskstar 36GB
- 3 x 7200rpm IBM SCSI drives, software RAID 5
- one relatively el-cheapo IDE for the primary master, to boot up
(Is this really necessary? Betting uptime on a single IDE HDD doesn't
sound like a good idea; is booting on software RAID possible?
Or should we use the age-old initrd-on-a-floppy?)
Has anyone tried software RAID mirroring over the promise controllers
(i.e. using IDE)? If this works, we'd like to do it for financial reasons
:-)
Rhan.
