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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.
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.