I just been thiking of the Apple Mac Mini can be a good 1U server. When I search for this information on the internet, I found out that there are already a hosting company in Cambridge provide this service. Interesting huh.
Why using Mac Mini as 1U server? There are a few reasons
1) Pricing wise it will be cheaper than the standard 1U server
2) Half of the size or maybe just 1/4 size of a standard 1U server, which means I can host more server in a 1U rack
3) Performance wise is competetive which the Mac Mini running on Intel Core 2 Duo 1.83
4) The power consumption also less, which is quite GREEN
5) The downside maybe the MEMORY not in ECC mode, but do I really need this now a day?
6) The other downside will be the HDD (Harddisk) which can be quite limited especiallly if I want to make an internal RAID 1 seems will be a problem. But I can overcome this by putting in an external USB HDD or backup to another NAS server (possibly a Mac Mini NAS) (NAS = Network Attached Storage)
I am currently experimenting the enviroment by using my Macbook. Apache 2 and PHP 5.0 already comes with the Mac OSX Leopard, so I just need to enable them. Now just finish installing the MySQL 5.0.5 64 bit into my Macbook and going for test run.
As for Control Panel, Webmin will be a good choice tooo since it’s open source and easy to setup, maintain and for use.
I will put on more progress here soon.
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Today I just received a call from my friend Jacky about the progress of co-location ordering. Seems like everything doing all right. Now just waiting for the details for registering the account. Once the registration done then I will go ahead with the order of server.
Hopes everything will go smoothly.
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I just wonder why I cannot get any search results in Google for the TM Net Netmyne Data Centre Ipoh, Malaysia. All mentioned TM Net datacentre only showing Kuala Lumpur, Penang, Johor etc.
I will be putting the new server in this datacentre in my hometown – Ipoh. The reason is not because I love Ipoh, I guess that by co-locate my server there then I can have better access both remotely and physically, at least my staffs do not need to travel to Cyberjaya everytime.
The connection in this datacentre will be about 155Mbps. The other reason to choose to co-locate server in Malaysia is because we are expanding our business in ASIA which my UK servers will not be able to provide the fastest connection to serve all the clients and users.
The server should be ready in end of this month and should be ready to serve in early June.
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Interesting, very aggressive customer service sales call which I experienced. If it is not a public holiday, normall when I request a quotation, the same day i will get the call and quotation from them. Why I want to buy Dell computers? The reson is simple, I can only find proper server quotation no matter in UK or Malaysia (especially Malaysia). Most server vendors do not really provide server solutions to small and medium business, at least I cannot find them easily. I can build the server by myself for my clients, but the other problem is normally you cannot get the components and parts for server easily, especially the server processors and good 1U casing. I have been trying to look for parts to assemble the server but also ends up with buying a ready built server is far cheaper. This is the current hardware market, just can’t get any more profit from selling computer hardware.
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