According to my last post Web Server, 1 or 2 Quad Core Xeon?
, I just did the order for Single Quad Core Xeon today. With the saving of paying extra for 2nd Xeon, I can get a NAS or Mac Mini, I really think that this web server will not need 8 COREs. 
Anyway, the server should reach See See next week and she will get the CentOS 5.1 on while I will wait for the connection to further configure.
Now is the time to hunt for cPanel
iPhone 2 will be selling for only £100 in the UK? Sounds possible…let’s wait for the 9th June announcement
If it’s true then I will be ready to get one to try.
news from http://www.pcretailmag.com/news/29957/Apple-prepping-low-price-iPhone
Still deciding on what specs to go for the web server since pricing coming down a lot. Should I choose the single Intel Xeon Quad Core 5420 or 2 of the same processors? It seems that I cannot find any information in any search engine.
I have been thinking of I may not need to go for 2 x Quad Core, there are few reasons
If anyone got some good suggetion then please let me know.
The other specs for this Dell PowerEdge 1950 will be
Cheers
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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