Hey all

Would you say that there is a favored server spec or proccessor for clients?

I think for lower end users they seem to like a Celeron 1.7 or 2.4 and 256 RAM.

Anyone else want to join in on this discussion.

Intel Pentium 4
Dual Intel Xeon (Expensive but great)

It all depends on what the customer is going for.

For my hosting business, I have an option to go with an IDE drive and a Celeron processor. However, since I want solid hardware supporting my shared-hosting clients, many of whom are fond of CPU-hungry applications, I will bite the bullet and pay extra for the SCSI drive and the Xeon processor.

For some of my clients who are starting to outgrow the normal shared-hosting environment and just need gobs of space, the SCSI / P4 configuration works just fine. I like the performance of the Xeon better, but if I'm potentially going to be profiting less from the boxes *and* the boxes are going to be storage depots, I'm willing to drop a step in processor-power and provide the clients with a lower-cost option.

Now I just have to hope that that policy doesn't come back to bite me on the backside

Ok thanks for all of your feedback

I like Leslie's logic on this issue, I never had a celeron just P4 and Xeon, I do think the Xeon performs best as well. Much of this also depends on the operating systems and processes that are run on the servers too. I think I tend to favor the Dual though because it has remote reboot where my P4 doesn't so that tends to sway me, but that P4 is my baby because it was the first.

Ok do you think it is worth me getting a dual xeon proccessor?

It depends on what you want the machine for.

If it's for a hosting environment, I would say "go for the dual Xeon" (shared or dedicated). If it's for hosting your company's main site(s) and no other clients will be on the box, you could probably do fine with a single Xeon, if you're looking to economize a bit and don't have multiple processor-heavy apps that you use on that box.

Ok, thanks for that. I will probably get a single xeon then

The only thing I really look for in a host when I'm checking out specifications is that it runs an operating system that is not windows. I don't know anything about stability or anything like that. I just don't like windows thats all and so I don't want to support it.

I use redhat linux 7.3 for all of my servers

Dual Xeons,
4gig of ram
scsi raid-5 array
10mbps dedicated pipe..

That right there makes everything so much better