Best Server?

[Jan Scholten]

Terry Inzauro wrote:
> http://store.sun.com/CMTemplate/CEServlet?process=SunStore&cmdViewProduct_CP&catid=111394 
> I'm partial to Sun.  Their hardware is hard to beat in reliability and 
> performance.

> _Terry

Yeah.. the Sun Fire is great, but do i need (for my configuration) a 
Server for at least $2795 (while the dell version is below $2000 for a 
dual CPU)

And i would like to know: why Dual, why nut. On the sun site i have 4 
Servers to chosse from which one should i take, WHY?

Jan

> 
> Jan Scholten wrote:
> 
>> Hi!
>>
>> I am in the glorious position to choose what kind of server should be 
>> bought for the monitoring server. But actually i have no Idea where to 
>> put stress on.
>>
>> I am using Nagios 1.2 to monitor about 200 Hosts and 400 Services but 
>> that will be alot ( maybe + 600 Services) more when everything is 
>> proper configured.
>>
>> Actually i am running Nagios on a Celeron 300 with 128 Meg under 
>> Debain testing, works but starts lagging (load up to 15) and webside 
>> is kinda slow.
>>
>> So i got the following question from purchasing guy: What sort of spec 
>> do you think would be appropriate? What make/model CPU? Single CPU or 
>> multiple? How much RAM?
>>
>> I believe because of the lots of spawned processes a Dual CPU would be 
>> fine and some RAM. What would you recommend (be realistic i don't want 
>> to have a Dual XXX that is idleing all the time)?
>>
>> I was thinking about either a small Dual System (better opteron or 
>> Xeon?) with around a gig of ram. Or a single AMD64 or P4 with a gig of 
>> RAM.
>>
>> A configured Dell Server:
>> Dual Xeon 2.8, 1 Gig Ram, 2 *40 GB Raid 1 Harddisks is about 1800 Euro.
>>
>> a selfbuild P4 3.2 will be definitly cheaper :-)
>>
>>
>>
>> Jan
>>
>>
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