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5150 wrote:I wouldn't run Exchange on that.
cheesyking wrote:You could get EEC support on the cheap with an AMD cpu, IIRC all ASUS AMD mobos support ECC,
Forge wrote:cheesyking wrote:You could get EEC support on the cheap with an AMD cpu, IIRC all ASUS AMD mobos support ECC,
JBI recommended that and JJCDAD said why they won't be doing that, back on the 26th. Good experience info on your uses, though.
bthylafh wrote:Tangent:
I'd consider outsourcing email, etc. to Google before I'd run Exchange, unless you're really confident that you can administer it. Email administration is a gigantic pain in the ass, largely because of spam, and Exchange is fairly expensive as email servers go.
Forge wrote:With any server like you describe, backups are VITAL. Be sure multiple people have realized what a disk failure could do, and that everyone is ready, just in case the machine barfs one day and corrupts or deletes some, or even ALL of the data on it.
prb123 wrote:It's not a real server without the following:
1. ECC Memory
2. Redundant Drives
3. Backups
4. Disaster Recovery Plan.
just brew it! wrote:5150 wrote:I wouldn't run Exchange on that.
Any specific reasons, or just "it's not *real* server hardware"?
bthylafh wrote:/facepalm
Please tell me you didn't mean to type "RAID 0" when you're talking about a server. Please? It's too early to start drinking.
P5-133XL wrote:I'm sorry, but I see a lot of issues with your plan. Not insurmountable, but just issues. The fact that you are asking questions here, implies that you really don't know what you are doing. Not knowing what you are doing means that you shouldn't be trying to cut corners because you don't know enough about those risks. So my suggestion is to be very conservative and have your customer spend the money to eliminate all the risk you can because the risk you are avoiding will come back and haunt you if you take it.
Madman wrote:Lets be honest, most small business can afford 1 day of downtime and loose 2 weeks of data without any issues. Under such circumstances you just walk to the nearest grocery shop, buy a 150$ replacement with single Green-HDD, reinstall Windows in under 2 hours, copy paste the backup from thumb drive, and business is back to business.
Madman wrote:See: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2005/0 ... -1999.html That's how one of the most successful IT companies in the world started.
With investments in Xenon's/ECC RAM/20 disk SSD RAID 10 solutions and redundant PSUs they would have been left in the dust.
P5-133XL wrote:prb123 wrote:It's not a real server without the following:
1. ECC Memory
2. Redundant Drives
3. Backups
4. Disaster Recovery Plan.
BS alert!
Servers are not defined by the HW but by a single function with a one (server) to many (client) relationship. Examples -- A file server is one that supplies files to many machines; An Exchange Server distributes mail to many machines; A Database server stores data and gives that out to many database clients.
The characteristics that are defined by you are simply factors that may be incorporated into the suitability of function, but they certainly do not define what a "real" server is.
spitfire650 wrote:For Quickbooks, you don't actually need to install the full-blown software package on the server - there's a small app you can install from the CD that'll just share the directory with the database, and make sure multiple people can open it at the same time.
And yeah, SBS 2011 Essentials is a good place to look, for a place that small.