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The next month, i will setup a small server as maillist/web. But i could only afford a little money. Then i think of AMD. But i never used it to be server even in a very small envirement before.
Aybody has experience with amd cpu ? Is it stable and powerful ?? BTW: which brand of motherboard you are using ? This small server will run email relate service, and for about 10 virtual Host customers, perhaps mysql would run on it.. ftp and rsync are must.
The wonderful thing about Linux is that you could probably do this on a PII 233 and it'd still be solid. I think for a small web/mail/db/ftp server and 10 hosts anything equivalent to a PIII is fine, your CPU certainly shouldn't be your bottleneck. I run qmail / courier imap-pop3 / spamd / apache2+php / mysql / postgres / ftp / tomcat / samba / cups on a PIII 450 and I can still watch a DVD (though if a lot of e-mail comes in at once, it'll bog a bit) No idea on board brands, I'm thinking of getting a new board myself, also an Athlon... Athlon has been around long enough to be considered "stable" IMO. Have fun! Josh