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Thyatt

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Nov 25, 2003, 1:55:00 PM11/25/03
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What is the best configuration for a standard 1u server
that is only going to be used as a Web Server.

I want to get the best performance out of this server
(serving the pages quickly).

Thanks

Tim

Jeff Cochran

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Nov 25, 2003, 4:48:22 PM11/25/03
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Gigabit ethernet direct to your OC3 router, quad Xeon processor, RAID
0 on Ultrafast Wide SCSI drives with a 32 MB caching RAID controller,
4 GB of RAM, no dynamic pages and no web page over 300 bytes total
size. It would help if you only had three files to serve and only a
dozen users that only browsed your pages on their birthdays, never
loading more than one page an hour.

Jeff

Patrick Rouse

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Nov 25, 2003, 10:31:37 PM11/25/03
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I think you missed the part where he stated "Standard 1U
Server". Most 1U servers are one or 2CPU configurations,
not Quad Xeon-MP Machines.

Patrick Rouse
Microsoft MVP - Terminal Server

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Jeff Cochran

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Nov 26, 2003, 9:44:07 AM11/26/03
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On Tue, 25 Nov 2003 19:31:37 -0800, "Patrick Rouse"
<anon...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>I think you missed the part where he stated "Standard 1U
>Server". Most 1U servers are one or 2CPU configurations,
>not Quad Xeon-MP Machines.

Didn't miss it a bit. He never said he wasn't willing to have this
custom engineered, the sole requirements were "best performance out of
this server".

Of course, if he isn't willing to custom engineer, then the same specs
with a dual Xeon (or Itanium when they're really available...) would
be the ticket.

And naturally, when he throws some *real* requirements in, such as
cost, he'll find the options even more restricted. :)

Jeff

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