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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.eng.convex.com!hermes.oc.com!news.unt.edu!cs.utexas.edu!academ!bcm.tmc.edu!news.msfc.nasa.gov!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!aremorica.jpl.nasa.gov!f.odonnell From: f.odonnell@jpl.nasa.gov (Frank O'Donnell) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Good commercial PC box for a FreeBSD Web server? Date: Tue, 30 Jan 1996 22:25:06 GMT Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory Lines: 27 Message-ID: <f.odonnell.656.310E9AC2@jpl.nasa.gov> NNTP-Posting-Host: 137.78.104.20 X-Newsreader: Trumpet for Windows [Version 1.0 Rev B final beta #4] We are interested in putting up a FreeBSD 2.1-based Web server to benchmark against other flavors of Unix running on different hardware at a high-volume Web site. The first thing we have to do is specify what hardware we want to buy. I've taken a look at Jordan's picks (http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/handbook104.html#154), which makes hardware suggestions at the subsystem or component level. To avoid driving our procurement people nuts, however, it would be a _lot_ easier if we could just say "Get us a [Compaq/Gateway/Dell/etc/etc] Model X9000 with the 2-GB SCSI hard disk option" rather than trying to find a system bundler who will assemble a system from scratch. So my question is: Is there a PC configuration out there available from a major commercial vendor that you can recommend as a good box to run a Web server on? Since this will only be a Web server, we don't care about multimedia, monitors, etc. We're probably thinking something on the order of a 150-MHz Pentium or similar processor. Something like a 2-GB drive should take care of the OS and basic Web docs that it needs to house, although we'd want something with some extra bays so that additional disks could be added. Thanks for any comment, Frank frank@jplpio.jpl.nasa.gov