I run Centos on Compaq dl380g1/2/3's and Dell servers. While the Compaqs are strong hardware they are old and frankly the performance compared to modern (cheap or otherwise) hardware is not really that impressive. A dual 1 gig P3 dl380 and ultra 3 scsi drives get significantly out performed by a generic celeron with software raid SATA drives. I firmly believe the best value for money and performance is the Dell Poweredge 750 with hardware raid SATA drives. The PE 750 is cheap and installs out of the box (Centos 3 and 4), performes flawlessly and is extremely fast. John Hinton wrote: > Robert Hanson wrote: > >> Greetings! >> >> I wish to thank everyone for their testimony regarding this "CentOS on >> Compaq Proliant Rackmount Servers" thread. >> >> The basics have been answered and I am grateful. >> >> Even though I can fund brand new shiny latest greatest fastest I >> think it is >> a foolish waste of money unless there is a true "need". >> >> > Yup, it's a shame to waste expensive horsepower if you don't need it > and most web stuff doesn't use a lot of horsepower.. Buy a bit above > your needs. Quality over horsepower as well, has been my philosophy. > >> Is it currently worth getting used dual PIII 1850R's or should I >> start with >> used dual PIII DL380's and like 1Ghz minimum processor speed? >> >>