Server-specs recommendations

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I'm planning to build a low-end server that's relatively stable. It will be co-located at a local datacentre.

Are there certain hardware I should avoid when building it up?
 
Celerons that are higher than ~1 ghz (p4 time celerons) with their 16 kb total cache ...

~Adam
 
What's the budget? A lot of people have different views on what "low-end" is.

Edit: Is this just a web server, or?
 
It will be a webserver.

Budget-wise? I'm trying to limit to roughly USD$550.

I'm planning to purchase 2nd hand stuff.
 
many colo's require boxes to be rack-mountable, or you incure an "oversized" charge. Is that the case here?
 
Make sure you get quality RAM and memtest the hell out of it before you send it to get your system rock-solid.
 
My recommendations, Intel or AMD, doesnt matter, just make sure the motherboards chipset is known to be stable and reliable. Use quality components every place thats critical, motherboard & RAM especially. I'd recommend Crucial memory for their known quality, preferably ECC if you can afford it. A 3Com network card. For video card it doesnt matter since it'll hardly ever be used, just a simple one. Also a good quality power supply is a must as well, Antec, Enermax, etc.

I've got two servers at a co-lo, ones a PIII 650 on a Asus P2B-F board, with 512MB Crucial ECC RAM, 2x 36GB SCSI disks, it's been there for 2 years now with no problems at all. The others an XP 1600+ on an Asus A7V333 board with 768MB Crucial RAM and 2x73GB SCSI disks thats been in service for about a year now also with no problems.
 
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