Re: Need advice on a new midrange.com server config

[Mike Wills <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I know the arguments for cloud and against, but have you though of Amazon
EC3 or RackSpaces cloud servers? Just a thought I had. Not sure of the costs
of owning vs. renting.

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Mike Wills
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On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 8:22 AM, David Gibbs <david@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Folks:
>
> I've placed an order for a new machine to run midrange.com.
>
> It's a Dell Poweredge T310 ... it will have 8gb memory, Intel X3450 Xeon
> Processor (2.66 GHz8M Cache, Turbo, HT) & 500gb RAID 1 disk (2x).
>
> Currently I run midrange on a pair of Poweredge servers, both running
> Fedora 10 ...
>
> Rivendell runs the mail server (including anti virus and anti spam), list
> server, mysql, java based chat server, and is a general file server.
>
> Gondor runs the list archives, search engine, and blogs.
>
> I'm mulling over how I should configure the new system.
>
> Do I migrate everything to the new machine as a single Linux install or
> should I consider re-implementing both systems as individual VM's on the new
> machine?
>
> Regardless of how I reconfigure, I'll probably be switching to Centos for
> the Linux distro.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> A few things to think about:
>
> 1. Which free VM implementation should I use?  I've used VMWare server in
> the past, I currently use virtualbox, I can also consider looking at XEN.
>
> 2. Should I enable hyper-threading on the processor?  Is it advisable if I
> use VM's?  My database processing tends to not be intensive.
>
> Thanks!
>
> david
>
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