On Fri, 09 Jan 2004 07:39:19 -0800, Jimmy Wales wrote:
(I was unable to replicate your price. I get $1498 for this configuration, or $1298 for a Celeron 2.0.)
Did you untick the Windows license? One of the servers had it selected by default. It's right here in my 'shopping basket', so i'm shure it's no error.
Very interesting. Earlier I said rack space is not an issue, but we are constrained to rackmount servers.
Ok. The price difference isn't that big- the rackmount ones have 1Gig ram.
Replicating as close I can the configuration you have above, I find:
Silicon Mechanics - $1179 P4 2.6, $1038 Celeron 2.4 - non-ECC ram Penguin Computing - $1211 P4 2.66, $1102 Celeron 2.7 - ECC ram
Afaik the Dells all have ECC ram. A P4 should be significantly faster than a Celeron at the same rate. They all seem to be more expensive than Dell. There have to be some cheaper companies than Dell in the US- otherwise there would be a decent business opportunity ;-)
(Penguin doesn't have the slower processors.)
Lots and lots of ram is usually good for webserving, though? (Although I guess it's much more important for the squids?)
The Apaches get their data from the database and from the fileserver (might be the same machine). They don't serve anything from their local disk (where a lot of ram would help as disk buffer- more than half of larousse's ram is used for it). All they do is burning cpu cycles on templates.
Database connection result caching (if there is any in php by default) will be part of Apaches's memory footprint which is 900 Megs at the moment for dual CPU. So with 1 Gig ram there should be roughly 400 Megs of free memory.