Hi All,
I've got two 'old' dedicated hosting servers in the USA, one running Redhat 7.3 (P4 2.4Ghz) and another Fedora 1 (P4 2.8Ghz). Both machines have 2 x 80Gb IDE hard drives, where the second drive is solely for cPanel backups.
I wish to migrate all sites from both servers and consolidate in a single more robust, more powerful server. Here are the specs I'm looking at:
Dual Xeon 3.2
2Gb RAM
2 x 250Gb SATA in RAID 1
1 x 250Gb SATA (for cPanel /backups)
RHE 4
cPanel (of course)
So the key change I'm going for is 3 HDs, with two of them in a RAID 1 config and the third for cPanel backups.
I'm not after special offers or deals from anyone. As a fellow cPanel user and (presumably) website hoster, my question is - what do you think of this hardware setup?
It's not every day you migrate lots of sites to a new server, and so I feel it's important to choose the initial/base hardware config wisely.
Is there any glaring opportunity I've missed here to get myself sorted out with a damn good server that's going to last me a few (couple of?) years?
I've got two 'old' dedicated hosting servers in the USA, one running Redhat 7.3 (P4 2.4Ghz) and another Fedora 1 (P4 2.8Ghz). Both machines have 2 x 80Gb IDE hard drives, where the second drive is solely for cPanel backups.
I wish to migrate all sites from both servers and consolidate in a single more robust, more powerful server. Here are the specs I'm looking at:
Dual Xeon 3.2
2Gb RAM
2 x 250Gb SATA in RAID 1
1 x 250Gb SATA (for cPanel /backups)
RHE 4
cPanel (of course)
So the key change I'm going for is 3 HDs, with two of them in a RAID 1 config and the third for cPanel backups.
I'm not after special offers or deals from anyone. As a fellow cPanel user and (presumably) website hoster, my question is - what do you think of this hardware setup?
It's not every day you migrate lots of sites to a new server, and so I feel it's important to choose the initial/base hardware config wisely.
Is there any glaring opportunity I've missed here to get myself sorted out with a damn good server that's going to last me a few (couple of?) years?
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