[ILUG] ITX advice

[Timothy Murphy]

On Sat 08 Sep 2007, Jeroen Massar wrote:

> > I'm thinking of getting an ITX server,
> > mainly to use less electricity.
> > Any advice on what to get?
...
> > My main requirement is reliability,
> > as it will be in a remote site.
> > I'd like it to run Linux without too many complications.
>
> What are the exact requirement?
> - What is your budget?
I suppose around 800 euro for a complete solution (with disks)

> - What OS will it run?
Linux.
I prefer Fedora, because that is what I am running on other machines,
but I am not (very) bigoted.

> - What is it going to run?
I was looking at chkconfig on my present server (a fairly ancient Asus PIII),
and the list would include:
cups, dovecot, httpd, mysqld, openvpn, sendmail,
shorewall, spamassassin, sshd,

> - How much traffic is it going to do?
I'm not sure how this is measured,
but over the past week about 2GB has come in, 
and 0.6GB gone out over the internet.
All of this has come from other internal computers.

> - How much storage space does it need?
Currently I have 330GB SCSI disks,
and a 200GB IDE backup disk.

> - Does it need RAID or so for reliability?
I'm not really a RAID convert.
I haven't had any problems with my SCSI disks,
and people seem to have as many problems with RAID disks
as with SCSI disks.
But this is probably an old-fashioned point of view.