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Processor | AMD Phenom II 965BE |
Motherboard | ASUS M4A785TD-V EVA |
Cooling | Air right know. Water later |
Memory | 4bg Corsair Dominator PC3 8500 9,9,9,24 2t timing |
Video Card(s) | Sapphire HD7950 Vapor-X |
Storage | 5x 500gb sata3.0 Seagate in RAID 0 - 2x 160gb Seagate for backup |
Display(s) | MAG INNOVISION 19in LCD 2ms 1600:1cr, 22in LED 2ms-5ms |
Case | Thermaltake Armor QuadFX edition |
Power Supply | 1000w Thermaltake toughpower |
Software | Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit |
Benchmark Scores | 3Dmark06 10712 single card and no oc, 12071 with cpu @ 2.8ghz and card oced, 13877 with crossfire. |
Hey guys so my current project at the moment is building a server that will host a few websites, game server and file sharing. Here are the parts I have to work with.
Asus K8N-DRE Server board
2x AMD Opteron 275 dual core 2.2ghz cpus
16gb if ddr 400 ram
Adata 128gb ssd
3x Seagate 1tb drives
As far as software I have windows server 2012 and a bunch more at my disposal all are legal.
My current internet is dynamic IP FIOS 25down 25up and I'm going to upgrade it to static IP FIOS 50down 25up that will be the coming months once the server is up and running correctly.
So this came from a friend of mine who owns a big company running a bunch of servers:
Mike
"Well if the server is a retail one, I would go with VMware and break stuff up. The web server and games server are both presumable public. By breaking things up on different 'computers' you can cut down on risk of attack and compromise of your important stuff. If he is buying a new OEM server and it is on the HCL this is easy. If he is building from scratch he can look at forums for suggestions on supported parts that you can buy retail that will still work with VMware. I would install VMware on the server to the SSD. I would then load two or three OS's. I would put a really small Ubuntu LAMP server on the SSD for the website. It's very light weight and rocks for web hosting. By breaking this off you can forward one port to the webserver and keep everything else safe. I would then install server 2008 with the "c" drive on residing on the SSD (you should have a good 50gb still for that). Then mount the three TB raid for storage to VMware and hack off a few TB for the DATA disk on the server OS for the files and such. You can use server 2008 as a game server too if you want. What I would do is build a small windows 7 box entirely on the 3tb array. Again assuming that this is public, it isolates it and ensures the best compatibility with the game makers. In my experience most don't support server OSs directly.
If VMware is out of the picture. Server 2008 is going to host files fine, will likely work with more games than any other OS (windows 7 kernel) and has IIS 7 so you can run the latest PHP."
So I am trying to understand all of this just a lot of stuff to take in especially with college but I have my break coming up so I plan on getting it running then just need some advice and help. I would greatly appreciate it.
Thanks again guys!
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Asus K8N-DRE Server board
2x AMD Opteron 275 dual core 2.2ghz cpus
16gb if ddr 400 ram
Adata 128gb ssd
3x Seagate 1tb drives
As far as software I have windows server 2012 and a bunch more at my disposal all are legal.
My current internet is dynamic IP FIOS 25down 25up and I'm going to upgrade it to static IP FIOS 50down 25up that will be the coming months once the server is up and running correctly.
So this came from a friend of mine who owns a big company running a bunch of servers:
Mike
"Well if the server is a retail one, I would go with VMware and break stuff up. The web server and games server are both presumable public. By breaking things up on different 'computers' you can cut down on risk of attack and compromise of your important stuff. If he is buying a new OEM server and it is on the HCL this is easy. If he is building from scratch he can look at forums for suggestions on supported parts that you can buy retail that will still work with VMware. I would install VMware on the server to the SSD. I would then load two or three OS's. I would put a really small Ubuntu LAMP server on the SSD for the website. It's very light weight and rocks for web hosting. By breaking this off you can forward one port to the webserver and keep everything else safe. I would then install server 2008 with the "c" drive on residing on the SSD (you should have a good 50gb still for that). Then mount the three TB raid for storage to VMware and hack off a few TB for the DATA disk on the server OS for the files and such. You can use server 2008 as a game server too if you want. What I would do is build a small windows 7 box entirely on the 3tb array. Again assuming that this is public, it isolates it and ensures the best compatibility with the game makers. In my experience most don't support server OSs directly.
If VMware is out of the picture. Server 2008 is going to host files fine, will likely work with more games than any other OS (windows 7 kernel) and has IIS 7 so you can run the latest PHP."
So I am trying to understand all of this just a lot of stuff to take in especially with college but I have my break coming up so I plan on getting it running then just need some advice and help. I would greatly appreciate it.
Thanks again guys!
(PICS TO COME SOON)
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