[TriLUG] Need Hardware Recommendation

[Jim Ray]

I'm partial to Dell servers myself.  Although I build white boxes for
me, I recommend that others get a Dell with the 3 yr next day hardware
support.  I specified one last night with that 15,000 rpm SCSI HD
upgrade and the slowest non-Celeron processor (servers need that on chip
cache of the Pentiums).  SCSI vs RAID and amount of memory are other
questions you'll need to address depending on the redundancy and number
of users.

Always glad to help my alma mater :-)

Regards,

Jim
NCSU EE '85

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul D. Boyle [mailto:boyle at laue.chem.ncsu.edu] 
> Sent: Thursday, April 10, 2003 2:01 PM
> To: trilug at trilug.org
> Subject: [TriLUG] Need Hardware Recommendation
> 
> 
> Hi All,
> 
> My department is considering doing an upgrade of it's mail 
> server, and I am looking for hardware recommendations.  
> Particularly, vendors who sell complete systems and have good 
> Linux support at a reasonable price. The box's main tasks 
> will be to run sendmail, pop, imap, and apache which provides 
> a web interface to users' mail.  The server usually sends out 
> about 100 MB of mail/day.  I don't know the stats for 
> incoming mail. Large attachments aren't uncommon but are 
> limited to 5 MB by University policy.
> 
> Thanks for any suggestions and recommendations.
> 
> Paul
> 
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