My thoughts on servers for an ISP. I just built a brand new PDC for my
service. Here's the specs and what I think of it:
I only use Intel motherboards due to innumerable tech support and RMA
problems with other manufacturers.
Intel Redwood motherboard
- on board video and Adaptec AHA 2940 controller
dual PII/300 cpu's
256 MB SDRAM
2 IBM 9GB Ultrastar SCSI harddrives (the best and fastest SCSI drive I
have seen yet)
NT 4.0
Post.Office 3.x
RadiusNT 2.x
Bind for NT DNS server
IIS 4.0 web and ftp server
This system absolutely screams. It has a typical CPU utilization of 10%
and the memory utilization hovers at about 100 MB. Everything is extremely
stable. The Intel Redwood board supports SNMP Lan management with an
additional ISA card, which I will be adding shortly. This will allow me to
remotely monitor, shut down, and/or reboot the machine.
When you are building a production server which will be up 24/7 and it is
critical that your customers be able to access it, or you lose business,
spend the money for the best. Doing it on a shoestring pretty well assures
you of problems which will cost you business.
Eric W. Cowperthwaite
Intellinet, Inc.
System Engineer
eric@valleynetworking.com
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From: Otto Hoel[SMTP:ohoel@atlantic.net]
Sent: Friday, May 29, 1998 5:21 PM
To: ntisp@iea-software.com
Subject: Re: NT Server
Hi all,
>And the M715 motherboard. I've never heard of it and am a little
>apprehensive.
I'm in the same boat, kinda...
I'm in the process of starting an ISP. Got some of the equipment on hand,
and I now need to build a server or two. So what do you recommend for a
motherboard? I have heard good things about the ASUS and TYAN brands, are
there any other good ones?
What about hard drives? I will get SCSI and Adaptec 2940 controllers, but
I have no idea about the drives themselves. Personally I like Maxtor since
my two old 850Mb drives have been chugging along for years without a
hickup, while two Western 2.1Gb died on me.
Anything else I should look for? Which part of a server tend to break?
Where can I save money, and where should I go first class?
Thanks
Otto
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