redtailboa
Junior Member
Ok I am wanting some opinions here. I am trying to decide what would be the best processor to use for my setup. My website http://redtailboa.net is currently running on a POS Celeron 1.7Ghz with 1Gig of ram. The server is also running 1 crappy 5400RPM 40Gig IDE Drive.
Now my plan is to spend about $1,000 total. I was thinking of doing 2x80Gig SATA drives since SCSI is way to expensive, atleast 1 Gig of RAM.
Basically I just need a suggestion of Motherboard and CPU. I started reading benchmarks and saw that the Athlon MP maybe a good choice. Is the Opteron really worth that much more money? 64Bit is not a problem for me since I can just customize the OS to utilize it (Bsd or Linux). My biggest point is that this machine will be dedicated to heavy load from Mysql and Apache/php. I basically want a cpu that does the best bang for the buck when handing db and httpd request.
Thanks in Advance!
Redtailboa
Now my plan is to spend about $1,000 total. I was thinking of doing 2x80Gig SATA drives since SCSI is way to expensive, atleast 1 Gig of RAM.
Basically I just need a suggestion of Motherboard and CPU. I started reading benchmarks and saw that the Athlon MP maybe a good choice. Is the Opteron really worth that much more money? 64Bit is not a problem for me since I can just customize the OS to utilize it (Bsd or Linux). My biggest point is that this machine will be dedicated to heavy load from Mysql and Apache/php. I basically want a cpu that does the best bang for the buck when handing db and httpd request.
Thanks in Advance!
Redtailboa
