> Excellent email, but you didn't send it to the original author. I
> included him on this forward. :)
>
> --
> Jeremy Chase
>
http://twitter.com/jeremychase
>
>
>
>
> On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 1:15 PM, David Astua <dastuam@gmail.com> wrote:
> > 2010/11/5 Jeremy Chase <jeremychase@gmail.com>:
> >> I have an emac that I just updated to 4.8 macppc, and it as expected,
> >> it works great.B I used to run OpenBSD on an old ultra5, and it also
> >> worked great. x86 might be the most common, but the other
> >> architectures work very well too.
> >>
> >> For what you are doing it looks like all these machines will be fine
> >> from a performance standpoint, but as Christopher said, the Athlon
> >> will be the snappiest. I'd still get the Sun box though, assuming the
> >> fan noise isn't a problem.
> >>
> >> --
> >> Jeremy Chase
> >>
http://twitter.com/jeremychase
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 9:14 AM, LeviaComm Networks <NOC@leviacomm.net>
> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> On 05-Nov-10 05:47, Felipe Mesquita de Oliveira wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> C) Atlhon 64 X2 +5200, 2 GB RAM, 160Gb HD -> B US$ 320,00
> >>>>
> >>>> The idea is to build an server with: WWW/Email/Firewall
> funcionalities,
> >> with
> >>>> better stablity as possible.
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>> You'll get a lot more performance out of the AMD X2. B Plus both i386
> and
> >> AMD64 are still king in the commodity hardware market, and are a
> dime-a-dozen
> >> nowadays. B Literally everyone and their grandmothers own x86 based
> hardware.
> >> B The i386 platform has support for the most bits of hardware and
> replacement
> >> parts are stupidly easy to come by.
> >>>
> >>> -Christopher Ahrens-
> >>> -Co-founder
> >>> -LeviaComm Networks-
> >>
> >>
> >
> > I've got two old Sun servers one month ago, one of them is a Sunfire
> > like the one you're planing to buy the other is a Netra X1 a bit less
> > powerful. Coincidentally my desktop has the same configuration as the
> > AMD you're mentioning, the performance of the desktop is a bit better,
> > anyway i need to do some further testing. Because think the Sun would
> > respond better under heavy load against the normal performance
> > degradation on my desktop if there's a lot of requests.
> >
> > I'm just messing around with this non-traditional architecture, but
> > take care of the fan noise stated above, the NIC's bundled in the Sun
> > equipments are much better than most on-board NICs, also the LOM
> > interface on the Sun servers is really nice.
> > They're working smoothly!
> >
> > Where are you planning to buy the equipment? I notice that the prices
> > for the equipments are a bit high (for eBay), or you've to pay a lot
> > of shipping/taxes?
> >
> > I hope this helps.
> >
> > Best regards;
> > -- David A.
> >
> > NOTE: If you bought the Sun server don't forget to get the RJ45 -> DB9
> > converter.
