I've been talking to a chap who is interested in a clan server hosting..... God help him 8)
See the spec of the server he has:
>Dual p3 tualtin 1.26 512kb
>running in raid strippin array dual ibm 7200rpm hdds with 2gig of sdram
>on a gigabyte server board
HHHHHmmmmmmm
pffft. You wanna see what our main database server is.
Intel STL2 (http://support.intel.com/support/motherboards/server/stl2/) in a SC5000 (http://support.intel.com/support/motherboards/server/chassis/SC5000/) chassis 1GB RAM 1 x 933mhz PIII
Adaptec 3200S (http://www.adaptec.com/worldwide/product/proddetail.html?sess=no&prodkey=ASR-3200S&cat=%2fTechnology%2fRAID%2fAdditional+RAID+Products) Ultra3 Dual Channel RAID card with 128MB cache and battery backup, connected to two Hot-swap hard drive bays, supporting ten 1" SCSI hot-swap drives
Six 18GB 10,000 RPM Ultra2 SCSI drives in RAID 1 mirrored configuration.
All housed in a nice air conditioned room at 20degC :D Great in the summer! Always find something to tweak when it's really hot. :lol: