[ale] ATL Colocation and file server suggestions

Jeff Hubbs hbbs at comcast.net
Sat Jan 17 12:03:29 EST 2009


To your second question...

You can buy a Supermicro server chassis and a motherboard that has four 
or more SATA ports on it.  Use an ATA/CF adapter just to hold your 
/boot, stick in four 1.5TB SATA drives, configure as RAID5 on the mobo 
or using kernel RAID, and you're off to the races.  You might scrimp on 
CPU in favor of RAM...almost all of it will be going to disk cache once 
the thing's been in service for a while. 

- Jeff

Douglas Bridges wrote:
> Two (mostly unrelated) questions.  I am working on getting a startup 
> going, and I will eventually need a Colo spot in Atlanta to host some 
> servers.  Obviously, I am price conscious (being in startup mode), but 
> I will have approximately 7 servers that I will need to initially 
> host.  I will want a connection of at least 10 Mbps.  I need somewhere 
> that I will be able to get regular physical access, as I will be 
> getting data on hard drives and DVD's from clients that I will need to 
> transfer onto my servers.  I am going to be in Northern Atlanta 
> (Dunwoody), so anything closer to this area is preferred.
>
> On a related note, I am going to want to put together a file server 
> for my server farm, but I haven't dealt with larger file servers under 
> Linux in a long time.  I don't want to outlay the cash for a high end 
> storage solution, but I will want a server that can have several (~4) 
> Terabytes of storage available, which can be used by several Windows 
> boxes.  The files will be lots of smaller files that will have lots of 
> reads and writes (but more reads).
>
> Any suggestions are welcome.
>
> Thanks,
> Doug



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