[CentOS] server specifications

On 02/13/11 7:06 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
> It's also possible to save the budget, buy *two* similarly powerful
> used systems with much lesser hardware specs, and have genuine
> failover instead of the shared vulnerability of one expensive server
> with high-availability components as you describe. I've done both, and
> encourage using less expensive hardware in pairs: that makes upgrading
> a lot cheaper and helps avoid the single points of failure of high end
> hardware. HP's older "Proliant Server Packs" and their ability to
> completely mishandle the Broadcom network drivers on RHEL and CentOS,
> in particular, come to mind.

you still want ECC memory in a server...    and redundant power in a 1U 
is really no big deal.