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• jaenosjelantru
  
  

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  Posted: Jan 06, 2010 - 10:24 AM

  I am going to purchase a new server for an in house web server solution because a hosted solution is not permitted. I need suggestions on hardware requirements. This will be inside of a corporate network, with no outside access.
  
  The server will be accessed by roughly 50-100 people a day (maximum) and 10 users an hour (typical). It is EXTREMELY Pagesetter intensive. Pagesetter runs all of our current stuff and therefore any special recommendations, based on that, would be handy.
  
  TIA

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• jaenosjelantru
  
  

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  Posted: Jan 07, 2010 - 08:59 AM

  Anybody?

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• damon
  
  

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  Posted: Jan 07, 2010 - 09:13 AM

  I'm no expert but I would think that if you are going to dedicate a server box to just run Zikula the power is less of an issue than the corporate IT structure. Do they have other servers now? Do they have a rack this would be added to?
  
  If it's a small business with just a couple of tower servers and no rack you could use something like the Dell T100 series.
  http://www.dell.com/…ge-t100&s=bsd&cs=04
  A Xeon based web server and 2gb of memory could handle a lot more than you describe.
  
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• drak
  
  

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  Posted: Jan 07, 2010 - 02:56 PM

  Steven,
  
  In my experience running a hosting company for many years I can honestly say, get a server with lots of RAM - it's dirt cheap these days and gives you plenty scope. I don't know if you want to whitebox it, or go with Dell/HP/IBM. Supermicro are honestly the leaders in server technology in my own opinion. Xeon quad cores are cleap and is RAM (meaning 4GB should be the minimum). The expensive part is the hard drive setup. You get a lot of mileage out of hardware RAID setups - 3ware or LSI provide excellent solutions. Depending on your budget you can use SATA2 or SAS drives. RAID with parity also gives you some protection against inevitable disk failure. You should also stick a BBU on the server. Whatever you do, get a chassis with hotswap bays too.
  
  My recommendation for your business environment is definitely a server with min 4GB RAM, hardware RAID using at minimum drive mirroring RAID 1 (cheap since it needs just two drives), or if you need more performance RAID 5 or a stripped mirror setup. Always use a BBU on the RAID card. Get a chassis with hotswap drives. Processor, a single quadcore Xeon will suffice - they are cheap.
  
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• jaenosjelantru
  
  

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  Posted: Feb 01, 2010 - 04:48 PM

  These are minimum requirements I submitted to my boss:
  
  Single or Dual Quad-Core processor
  4GB Buffered ECC RAM
  100-500GB Hardware RAID HD setup using RAID1 at a minimum, RAID 5 preferred (swappable drives preferred)
  Gigabit Network
  CD/DVD optical drive
  2+ USB ports
  Video (no console only boxes)
  
  Thanks for the advice gents!

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