Re: [squid-users] Recommended Hardware for my setup

Thanks guys for your input.
I was hoping to find some type of 1U server with a decent CPU, good ram
and good disk(s).
Because of the setup I would be running and knowing that I will begin
with 70 users and grow to 100 over the course of about 6 months, I was
trying to plan for that as well. I have "thought" about looking at ebay,
because the server I need, doesn't need to be all powerful. Just
realiable, with good RAM and disks.

I appreciate it.

Cheers,

jason

Andreas Pettersson wrote:

> Unless you are planning to run on hardware that has been around for a
> while, I would say it makes no difference in performance using SCSI or
> IDE with 70 users. Or 300 for that matter. For security reasons you
> might want to set up som kind of disk mirroring. There are a few
> hardware options both for SCSI and IDE mirroring, and S-ATA of course.
> You can choose whichever you find most attractive. Keep in mind that
> IDE disks rarely can be hotswapped.
>
> And last, make a fictional disk failure.. Do you know what to do if a
> disk fails? How would you even know it has failed if the system is
> still running just fine? Some questions to keep in mind.. :)
>
> /Andreas
>
>
> Jason Williams wrote:
>
>> Greetings everyone.
>>
>> After a long hard fought battle, I finally have received permission
>> to run squid on our network. I've always run squid on my home network
>> (with great success) and now im looking to do it in the corporate
>> world. With that, I was hoping to get some type of idea on hardware
>> needs and possible some suggestions on where to buy/get my hardware.
>>
>> Ok. Company is around 70 people currently. Growth is very real
>> possibility.
>> Coupled with using squid, I will also be using:
>> http://dansguardian.org/ For web content filtering. (And won't I
>> come out smelling like roses when I show them we don't have to pay
>> $15k for a web content system!)
>>
>> That's it for now. Squid + web content filtering.
>>
>> I know squid uses more memory than CPU power. what about disks? SCSI?
>> IDE? does it matter? Obviously, I would like good performance, but
>> prefer security over performance.
>>
>> Thanks everyone.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Jaso
>>
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Received on Fri Jun 10 2005 - 17:01:24 MDT