• Some users have recently had their accounts hijacked. It seems that the now defunct EVGA forums might have compromised your password there and seems many are using the same PW here. We would suggest you UPDATE YOUR PASSWORD and TURN ON 2FA for your account here to further secure it. None of the compromised accounts had 2FA turned on.
    Once you have enabled 2FA, your account will be updated soon to show a badge, letting other members know that you use 2FA to protect your account. This should be beneficial for everyone that uses FSFT.

Looking to buy a new server

V

vtrac

Gawd
Joined
Sep 17, 2000
Messages
847
My company has a Windows 2003 server with only 16 client access licenses. There are always around 15-16 users on the server at a time, and so it is a giant pain in the ass when Windows says we're not allowed to connect without adding more licenses.

I convinced the CFO to approve the purchase of a new Linux server that'll take care of the licensing issue. However, I'm having a hard time finding one that fits our needs. I want to be able to run Gentoo on it. It will basically be used for sharing files for about 50 users or so. I want to have different shared folders that different security groups can have access to, and then have a security groups that have read/write access to some or all folders. How easy is it to do this with Gentoo? I use Gentoo on my laptop, but have never implemented this in a server environment.

On the hardware side, I just need 250GB or so of RAID1 storage, 1GB of ram, and any decent processor. This server won't be doing much more than serving files. Redundancy is key. I would also like tape backup, if possible, however I don't know how easy it is to implement in linux. Do you guys have any suggestions as to where I can order a server that meets these specs for a reasonable cost? Everywhere I've quoted has been upwards of $5k-10k. Any suggestions will be helpful.
 
Have you looked into building it yourself? Other then the tape backup I see no reason why your cost would be so high for what you listed, your specs are not high end.

Guess it depends on what you want to be redundant.

Would be a hell of alot easier to add some CAL's to your existing setup considering you have not used Linux in a production environment before. Sounds like fun to try though.
 
I would suggest a IBM eServer or xServer, they're solid and reliable machines and are pretty decently priced. Do not build your own server for a enterprise machine if this is for mission critical data, you can bet you will take the fall if anything gets lost. If you go this route get RedHat ES on it, this way you have support for hardware and software. As nice as Gentoo is, you will not get the same support level and responce time as you will getting a OS that the manufacturer supports.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top