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Limp Gawd
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Hey guys, i was asked by my friends work to put together a decent server for them, i have a pretty good idea of what id want to put in there but i wanted to get some input from you very knowledgeable people first ;)

Right now they have a rediculous setup, 2 fairly old compaq servers p4 1.4 i believe with 256mb of ram and around 8gig scsi harddrive on both, i nearly fell on the floor when i saw that thing being used as a server for the whole place.

What they need is 1 server running exchange, 1 with an oracle sql database, then they have some networkwide applications that need to run from either of the servers. Theres not alot of load theres only about 10 people on at max at any given point during the day, but the information is critical so it must be redundant and backedup every night. I think that pretty much covers it. Those 2 servers are still in decent working order so i figured id rip apart one and throw the usefull stuff into the other and keep it around maybe for the network apps or additional network storage. So let me know what kinda build you guys think would be good, with such low usuage we could go with just one decent server right?
 
I would go with 2 dual proc AMD Opteron Boxes with at least 2GB of Registered ECC ram & Gigabit ethernet. I would then pirate the old boxes and make one beefy backup server with a new SCSI tape drive.

And personally, I wouldn't personally build anything for a company, too much liability. Go with a reputable company and buy your new systems from them. Having a factory warrenty and a support number will save your booty if anything should go wrong.
 
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