[luau] migration
Lucas
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Wed Jan 14 22:01:01 PST 2004
Any hardware recommendation guys?
We are currently looking at the following list of dual-cpu rack mounts:
Sun Fire V280R $ 14,995 x 60% (Higher Ed discount) = $8,997.00
(2 x 1.2 GHz UltraSPARC III, 2.0 GB RAM, 2 x 73 GB 10000 RPM SCSI
drives, 10/100 Ethernet, Solaris 8 or 9)
Apple XServe G5 $4,799.00 (list)
(2 x 2.0 GHz PowerPC G5, 2.0 GB RAM, 2 x 80 GB 7200 RPM ATA
drives, 2 x 10/100/1000 Ethernet, Max OS X)
Dell PE 1750 $4,624.00 (list)
(2 x 3.2 GHz Intel Xeon, 2.0 GB RAM, 2 x 73.0 GB 10000 RPM SCSI
drives, 2 x 10/100/1000 Ethernet, no OS)
HP ProLiant DL140 $4,745.00 (list)
(2 x 3.2 GHz Intel Xeon, 2.0 GB RAM, 2 x 80 GB 7200 RPM ATA
drives, 2 x 10/100/1000 Ethernet, no OS)
HP ProLiant DL360 G3 $6,706.00 (list)
(2 x 3.2 GHz Intel Xeon, 2.0 GB RAM, 2 x 72.8 GB 10000 RPM SCSI
hot-pluggable drives, 2 x 10/100/1000 Ethernet, no OS)
Or do you guys have other experience with other great machines?
Thanks.
Lucas
> -----Original Message-----
> From: luau-admin at videl.ics.hawaii.edu [mailto:luau-admin at videl.ics.hawaii.edu] On Behalf Of Warren
> Togami
> Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2004 9:12 PM
> To: luau at videl.ics.hawaii.edu
> Subject: Re: [luau] migration
>
> Lucas Halim wrote:
> >>From the beginning of our apps development, we tried not to use too
> much vendor specific feature so
> > PL/SQL is not a biggie but it's definitely good to know.
> >
> > We are in the process of getting in new boxes and will try out Fedora
> >
> > Thanks guys for the responses. Just keep it coming.
> >
> > Lucas
> >
>
> postgresql is indeed nice, but please read the following about Fedora.
>
> I am a Fedora developer and personally use it myself on all of my
> servers (and desktops, and thin clients... etc.), I wouldn't recommend
> it for something that needs to remain at the same version for several
> years, like you probably want for an important database server.
>
> While the software in each Fedora distribution is generally very stable,
> each Fedora distribution is only supported for maybe 7-9 months after
> release. There is the chance that the Fedora Legacy Project [1] may
> continue security updates beyond the company's EOL, but the project
> needs more community developers to make that a reality. For these
> reasons, Fedora it is only really suitable for servers if you know Linux
> well and you don't mind upgrading the servers once or twice per year.
> For example if you have extra hardware you can do validation testing of
> the newer distribution and deploy it before the old Fedora goes EOL.
>
> Long story short... Fedora is not a great long term server solution.
> You may want to look at the alternatives like Debian, SuSE or RHEL.
>
> http://www.redhat.com/solutions/industries/education/
> Be warned that I am totally biased in recommending this, but Red Hat
> Enterprise Linux for academic institutions seems to be very reasonably
> priced and may suit your needs well. Red Hat is supposed to maintain
> security updates for each version of RHEL for something like 5 years,
> meaning you have plenty of time before EOL. The pages above says $50/yr
> for academic institutions, which appears a bit smaller than $1499/yr for
> RHEL AS. Something like every 1.5 years they plan on releasing a new
> version of RHEL, and the subscription allows you to download and upgrade
> to the latest version at no additional cost.
>
> [1]
> http://www.fedoralegacy.org
>
> Warren Togami
> warren at togami.com
> wtogami at hawaii.edu
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