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
Just installed the Windows XP Service Pack 3 (316MB download). Seems like nothing different other than showing SP3 in the system properties 😉 I did installed the SP3 MUI pack (for Multi Language) which is about 9MB since I am using Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese and Japanese language.
I saw some blog saying that may have problem of computer keep restarting if you are using AMD processor, BUT I am using my good old AMD X2 4400 cpu without any problem for the first few boots.
I will keep testing it right now and will blog here if any problem found.
Came across this piece of freeware for Mac OS, such a nice and smart application. With Fluid, you can specified the web app to become an app in Mac OS.
A more simple explanation is, you start this application, you then put in the URL (internet address / domain name) of the web app, for example http://www.gmail.com, and then you put in the name, let say, GMAIL. Then you choose where you want it to create the application, for example save it on the DESKTOP (the OS desktop folder) and you choose the ICON file in PNG/GIF/JPG or ask to use the FAVICON of the site and click OK. Within seconds, a new application will be created and you just run the GMAIL like an application in the Mac.
The advantages to create web app in this way are
1) You make the daily use web app/web site to be open easily, no need to type the same address everytime you use your Safari/Firefox
2) You can have different apps running the same time with different credential, for example I am using GMAIL and Google Adsense in different account but now I can open them at the same time by creating them as applications using Fluid
Oh yes, you may say I can do this by just clicking on the bookmark and just using different browser, but I can see that when web apps getting more popular, then Fluid definitely will be a smart way to keep yourself organized, especially for me 😉 lol
check it out yourself at http://fluidapp.com/
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.
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.
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.
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.
Now I am dealing with a weird problem met on my client server where some of the PHP/MySQL codes seems not running correctly. Is it the version problem? I am still searching for the solution. It seems that the codes runing perfectly on my local server and the servers in datacentre. Why don't those software keep standardized? This is why also I trust the web applications more than a typical software, at least I can keep cross-platform easy and simple.
The next project going on will be adding 2 more servers into our datacentre in Malaysia. One server will be serving a client social networking website for Asia and the other one will be the web application server for another client. Once the hardware specs decided then I will put up the details here to share will all of you. Please subscribe and stay tuned 😉
Today I just try to install the apploc.msi (MS AppLocale Utility) to support some chinese software on to my new Laptop running MS Vista Home Premium and found out that Vista did not permit me to do so. The message displaying you need Administrator right to install the software. I looged in as a administrator user but still cannot install it. Finally after searching through the MSDN documents, I found the solution.
Click on Start and then at the Search Box (for Run as well), type in
msiexec /ju c:\apploc.msi
which msiexec is the utility to run MSI Package file
and /ju means
j stand for advertise and permit to
u stand for current user
and interesting, I found the Applocale successfully added to my Programs Menu.
Hope you can get it through!!! Feel free to email me or drop a message in the forum
Nice new Flock. A browser that based on the mozilla firefox engine. The best feature I found is that you can browse flickr photo easily and of course, manage too 😉
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