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Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2012 20:30:27 +0100 (BST)
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On Sat, 16 Jun 2012, Nin Lil'izi wrote:

> I've been hankering for a server for some time and have always missed the boat so far.
> I'm working on projects centered around supporting eastern european roma to speak up for themselves and fight for a better
> deal. Anyway, won't go tl;dr on that. But it involves bringing them all into the digital age on a large scale.
> 
> But have a budget of next to nothing. Barely no personal income and currently supporting this out of my own pockets. And
> looking for a server I can load up on serious amounts of ram and hdd and co-locate.
> I have a prefernce for a 1u.... Just because hosting a 1u appear cheaper than a physically larger unit.
> As its a requirement to be involving webservices supporting users in the 100k upwards bracket. (not all concurrently of
> course... but concurrency will be very high)...

Any idea what kind of webservices? webmail? forums? different services 
will have different loads and so need more or less cpu's or disks.

If you're only doing forums and mail then you probably won't be needing 
large quantities of disk space. but if you want to store large quantities 
of photos and video then thats another story

> I really need somethign that can take a minimum of 16GB RAM......

Pretty much anything you'l be able to get will be able to do 16Gb eaisly.

> Preferably more if possible, but as much as I'd drool all over 64gb in one place I realise that beggers cannot be choosers.
> But something that would support future upgrades if money can be found would be great
> And something that I can later add a minimum of 4x 1TB HDD's.... Sata, because its cheaper.

Disks are going to be the problem with a 1U machine.

It's better form a performance and reliability point of view to have many 
small disks rather than a few large disks, the HP DL360 G5's take 6 
2.5in SAS drives, but i don't think we can get 1Tb ones (you'd have to 
buy them), and as you say, sata is cheaper...

This might be a good addition:

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/HP-MSA20-12x-3-5-SATA-HDD-Storage-Drive-Array-Enclosure-JBOD-RAID-SAN-NAS-/110889912879?pt=UK_Computing_Network_Storage_Disk_Arrays&hash=item19d18dca2f

> Obviously, something with either cpu's that can supprt the above or 
> sockets that could be upgraded for that purpose in the future.
> 
> I realise I am asking for ever so much and just edging on optimistic. I 
> would of course be delighted with what was actually reasonably 
> forthcoming :)

I think a HP DL360 G5 with as much ram and the biggest disks we can find 
will be a good start.

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