[ubuntu-uk] What to buy as an Ubuntu web server?

[Matt Jones]

On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 10:33 PM, Chris Rowson
<christopherrowson at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 5:03 PM, doug livesey <biot023 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> I appreciate the advice there, and that is definitely the route I take
>> with external, client-facing websites (although I use Mampi -- just get a
>> recommendation in there!).
>> This, however, is for a suite of inter-operating internal apps, so the
>> requirement is to have them hosted internally.
>> Cheers,
>>    Doug.
>
> Hi Doug,
>
> It's hard to advise specific hardware without knowing the scale or mechanism
> of the application you want to run on it. Additionally other hardware
> options may also depend on any SLA you have with a customer you are
> providing (i.e what level of uptime are they expecting etc).
>
> Personally if the most important factor is that the server is cheap, I'd go
> with an entry level HP server with 3 years warranty as suggested in my
> earlier post, although as I say, you 'get what you pay for' in terms of no
> proper hardware RAID, non-swappable SATA drives, no redundant PSU etc.
>
> Chris
>
>
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One caveat with the HP ones is that some retailers only sell them with
a one year warrenty. I bought one of the Quad core opteron ones as a
desktop ubuntu machine for my parents, I couldn't build anything as
cheap at the time and with an extra stick of ram and a cheap graphics
card it works a treat. It is reasonably power efficient, It draws
around 105w at idle, with one hard drive, going up to around 150w
under load. They are very nice little boxes, the core2 based xeons
should use less power. I got mine for £160, but the price seems to
have gone up to around £220, which is still a decent deal.