Best motherboard for a server
 

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Looking for dual processor, and as high as ram as I can, hoping for at LEAST 5 pci slots...


Anyone know any good ones out there?

Today I looked at a server, 2 TERABYTES of space, 12 GIGS of ram with 14 pci slots and 4 countem 4 processors...

Only $28,000














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thats mad cheap! :1orglaugh

What is the server going to be for?

Well in the city I live there is almost no webhosts for local businesses, I just want to do some hosting for them, try to get my foot in the door here for hosting.


Im trying to build the best server I can but not lose my ass on it, the computer I have now costs more then the car I drive...

Anyone?

For that kind of a setup I wouldnt touch anything else then
supermicro boards. We use them sometimes and they just rock!

I wouldnt recommend that in a 1U server...

Here is a link to a great board...
Supermicro

schweeeeeeet

Get yourself a Dell Poweredge1650 or 1700 and be done with it

We've had more problems with the Supermicros than the Dell's, Plus Dell's support is second to none

Hmm... where are you going to host from?

I only ask this because I'm wondering if there is a reason you are trying to build a single server to host many people...

For the price of 1 higher end webserver you can usually build 4-6 mid-range webservers.

Depending on the kind of hosting you are doing, it's usually adviseable to go with more servers.

ie, if you are going to be doing shared/virtual hosting, then you have much higher chances of security problems that might lead to the webserver getting messed up and needing to be restored.

If you have your client load balanced over 4-6 boxes then this is a lot better than having ALL of your clients down because you opt'd to build "one kick ass server".


On the other hand, if you need a super powerful database or fileserver that has a specific job in mind & good reason to combine as much processing power and ram as possible, then sure... build a several thousand dollar box for it.

Or maybe you live in the middle of nowhere where rackspace costs a fortune for 1u of rackspace.... that could be another reason to build a single box.