I am buying a server for hosting my web hosting company, I know I need to change the hard drives but what else do you think about it? Specifications: Dell PowerEdge -perc h700 raid -192gb ram ddr3 -dual xeon 2.8ghz six core cpu -2x Dell Enterprise 146GB 15K SAS 3.5" -Dell SlimLine Optical Drive -Dual 570W Power Supply Unit -Broadcom BCM5709C 4 x iSCSI TOE NICs (4 On-Board Ports Total) -Embedded Matrox G200 8MBl -2U Rackmountable -Dell iDRAC6 Express Card -Rapid Rails
It's not a bad server, but if you're gonna host an actual webhosting company, it'll fall short fairly quickly - depends on what your customers will want, of course, but still. The ram is decent, the drives are ok, but 6 cores... as soon as people start running heavy-duty setups on this, the performance will go to the basement. What's your network-setup? I see that you have 4 ports - bundling? separate? what limit per user? One server to host a webhosting company seems to me to be a bit optimistic. Normally you'd have fail-overs, separate servers, multi-machine setups etc.
If you're just starting - that is good enough. I would suggest a Dual 6 core CPU if your budget allows. I'd also recommend SSD's in RAID10 (hardware). If you're co-locating - make sure you have some spare hardware, and are close to the data centre (remote hands costs a bit).