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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!uwm.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!newsfeed.internetmci.com!quanta.com!rsww From: rsww@quanta.com (Ross Walker) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Good commercial PC box for a FreeBSD Web server? Date: 31 Jan 1996 20:42:48 GMT Organization: Quanta Communications, Inc. Lines: 36 Distribution: inet Message-ID: <4eok88$nm1@news.quanta.com> References: <f.odonnell.656.310E9AC2@jpl.nasa.gov> NNTP-Posting-Host: quanta.quanta.com X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Frank O'Donnell (f.odonnell@jpl.nasa.gov) wrote: : 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 I always buy Digital, but that's me. I run a couple of Prioris HX servers here and am very happy with them. Rock solid machines. Cheers, Ross Walker