On Wed, Jun 11, 2003 at 02:56:56PM -0400, Bart Trojanowski wrote: > * Thom May <thom@positive-internet.com> [030611 14:39]: >> Also, what sort of level of hardware would be best? I imagine that >> a low end box with a decent amount of ram and disk space would >> probably be fine? > At this time a lowest of the low end AMD64 box will run you about > $2k USD. It will include 2 Opteron 240 CPUs, an MSI K8D master > mobo, ~ 1G of RAM, and a modest hard-disk. I looked a bit at online resellers, the absolutely bottom price is more like 1100 USD. This includes only 256MB RAM, and one CPU. HD is ATA (which is fine, I guess). Only one year guarantee on the parts, too. I didn't really look at the details, maybe absolutely necessary things like NIC are missing, too. http://www.micropro.com/syslist.htm?product=Servers&sub=AMD%20Opteron%20Servers -- Lionel
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