Question: Building a server to colocate

I'm going to be building a server to colocate very soon, and I've been doing lots of research yet a little experience from my peers at WHT will help tremendously.

I've decided on the following:

Dual CPU (Either Tualatin 1.4's, or Athlon MP 1800's.)

The tualatins are more expensive, but thats the direction im leaning.. I don't want a hsf to fall off and hose my motherboard for the amd server (or some other heat related disaster).

The benefit of the AMD motherboard in my price range is that it has 64bit PCI slots, that would allow me to use the full potential of the U160 scsi host adapter I have (LSI Logic single channel).

Both motherboards have DDR PC2100. I plan on installing 2 x 512 MB ECC Registered memory modules, and upgrade to 2 GB a few months later.

The hard drive will most likely be a 36 GB 15krpm cheetah U160.

I guess my main questions are

1) What are your thoughts of a server with these specifications?

2) What are your preferences with the MP vs Tualatin?

I'll most likely be putting this in a mid-tower case and co-locating it at The Planet to host about 15-20 medium sized sites. I want them to be FAST.

TIA..

 

 

 

 

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