About to Buy a Server..HELP!!

[Linux_cat]

Hi Guys,

Im about to buy a server to host standard edition oracle 10g for a 2 CPU machine and am wondering anywhere that does good servers for a reasonable price.

I need it to be compatible with ubuntu linux, as thats what the base operating system will be, but i dont want any hardware configuration issues, just want to be able to get a server, throw ubunutu then oracle on there, i want to get the best possible peformace at an affordable price. It can even be a really high powered desk top just as long as its reliable and quality.

Has anyone got any suggestions or websites i can check out?.

[mrrangerman43]

Whats your idea of reasonable price? If your talking $200-300 your looking at a dual pIII at best on ebay, $350-550 will put you into a p4 xeon unit. So at that price it may be better just to build a dual core system, that way you can pick the parts you know will work with Linux.

Edit: Also are you looking for a rack mount or tower unit? Plus what storage size you looking for, and do you want it to use raid, use scsi, sata, ide be hot-swap? If you go scsi, the drives are pricy, for the same price you can buy sata and have 10x the storage space.

[Linux_cat]

Thanks,

Good idea, will the daul core work with Ubuntu linux and more importantly is it compatible with oracle 10g, i want to install everything smoothly, eg without the force option

[mrrangerman43]

Well I know dual core will work fine, I have a Amd dual core setup at home I use, and I think the newest kernel supports dual core off the gitgo now. If not you would just install a smp kernel image from ubuntu's repo list and be running in know time.
I've never used oracle 10g, so I'm not sure what it is, but if it's just a application I can't see why not.

[hotcold]

Hi.

With instructions, photos, prices (as of 2006) for building a box and installing ubuntu ... cheers, hotcold

How to build the 2006.01.07 standard workstation:
http://cr.yp.to/hardware/build-20060107.html