[nzlug] small business server (the literal term, not microsoft's product)

[Matthew Diesch]

I've set up a couple of places using SME-Server on Shuttles. Stick in an
Athlon 64 (or an Opteron if you're feeling racy) a gig of RAM and a pair of
decent size sata drives for a mirrored pair and Bob's your mother's brother.
It'll run seriously more users than 5 on that kind of spec too. I've had a
couple of these rsync-ing overnight for DR and that's quite cool too.

On 04/12/06, SIMON WALKDEN <mrsym0r at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hello all,
>
> At my work, the boss has (finally) decided to move into the 21st
> century and look at getting serious with IT. I put my hand up to
> investigate what's needed and how to make it work, and identified two
> ways - the microsoft way, and the open source way (my preferred way).
> It will be for approximately 5 users, and the required services will
> include postfix, samba, Clam-AV, spam assassin, apache and BIND;
> possibly getting into openVPN/VNC/LTSP for remote access. My preferred
> flavour is mandrake.
>
> I've spoken to a few different people regarding the hardware, and the
> vast majority have recommended the hewlett packard HP-ML150 (3ghz
> intel xeon, 1gb DDR2 ram, 80gb SATA, external SCSI drive). However,
> all the people I've spoken to about this server have been microsoft
> people.
>
> Has anyone had any experience with this box? Had any trouble setting
> cronjobs to backup to the SCSI drive?
>
> Or can anyone recommend something better than this for a small business?
>
> I greatly appreciate any and all feedback.
>
> -Simon
>
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