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<blockquote data-quote="Janx" data-source="post: 4432395" data-attributes="member: 8835">I second ThirdWizard's recommendation on the DL385.&nbsp; Good machine.&nbsp; The DL380's also good (AMD for the former, intel for the latter).&nbsp; Make sure you get the latest generation.Also, I recommend SAS drives over SATA.&nbsp; SATA drives have a higher failure rate (cheaper cost...).&nbsp; There's not many drive bays on the DL38x, but disks are big anyway... Setup as a RAID5 or better (RAID 0 gives no protection from drive failure).You may want to rethink your server arrangement.&nbsp; I find that seperating functions across servers (DB server, web Server) is nice and clean, but the network acts as a bottleneck between the web sever and the DB server.&nbsp; Putting both DB and PHP/APache on the same server usually gives top performance for single page requests.&nbsp; Splitting work across servers is best done for load balancing and redundancy reasons.I assume y'all are running linux, apache, PHP5, and MySQL or PostGRES.&nbsp; We've found that makes a pretty fast application server where I live.Good luck.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Janx, post: 4432395, member: 8835"] I second ThirdWizard's recommendation on the DL385. Good machine. The DL380's also good (AMD for the former, intel for the latter). Make sure you get the latest generation. Also, I recommend SAS drives over SATA. SATA drives have a higher failure rate (cheaper cost...). There's not many drive bays on the DL38x, but disks are big anyway... Setup as a RAID5 or better (RAID 0 gives no protection from drive failure). You may want to rethink your server arrangement. I find that seperating functions across servers (DB server, web Server) is nice and clean, but the network acts as a bottleneck between the web sever and the DB server. Putting both DB and PHP/APache on the same server usually gives top performance for single page requests. Splitting work across servers is best done for load balancing and redundancy reasons. I assume y'all are running linux, apache, PHP5, and MySQL or PostGRES. We've found that makes a pretty fast application server where I live. Good luck. [/QUOTE]

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