Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Need a new server

[Grant]

>> It's time to switch hosts.  I'm looking at the following:
>>
>> Dual Xeon E5-2690
>> 32GB RAM
>> 4x SSD RAID10
> nice
>> Can I count on this system to keep running if I lose an SSD?
> if a built in raid controller, yes. one thing you might want to check is
> linux tools for management -- you wouldn't want to reboot just go to go
> into the raid tools and check if it requires a rebuild, and you want to
> be able to schedule regular scrubs and maybe get a report.
> you might also like to consider OOB management such as IPMI, dell and HP
> do very lovely web based control panels that are independent of your
> main o/s allowing you to get alerts when bad things happen, and
> crucially watch reboot process from remote locations.

Good idea, I will look into IPMI.

>> Is a 100M uplink enough if this is my only system on the LAN?
> gigabit NICs are pretty cheap i'd be surprised if any new machine didn't
> have gigabit. i would suggest if you ever want to transfer data over
> 10GB across the network you should request gigabit

I should be OK with 100M.  I shouldn't be copying anything across the LAN.

>> Any opinions on Soft Layer?
>>
>> - Grant
> are you putting this server in colocation at softlayer? if so OOB is a
> requirement, and gigabit is not

I decided against colocation because I don't want to be responsible
for fixing hardware problems.  It would be a hosted machine.

- Grant