Hi all,
Wondering if anyone can help me. Sorry for the long winded biog.
We have a small ecommerce business (turnover £2m), currently 4 employees soon moving to 7. We are relocating to new premises (by end of month) and thought it time to have our own sever. Cabling has gone in already.
Currently, we just use a WORKGROUP with 4 PC's running a combo of W7Pro/64, XPPro32 and Vista64 on a Netgear Gigabit ethernet. Email is hosted on our Rackspace website server.
Main software used is Outlook, XL, Word, Quickbooks Pro 2004 and internet browser. Main point of server is for printers, accessing Quickbooks, PDF, Word, XL files and images. Main requirements is fast access to Quickbooks, currently 3 but moving to 5 users.
All PC's are to be built on W7Pro/64. We have built one to test and copes admirably, spec:
Crucial Sport 8GB Kit Ballistix 240-pin DIMM, DDR3 PC3-12800
Intel Pentium G2120 Dual Core Processor
ASRock B75 Pro3-M Motherboard
Samsung EVO 840 120GB
We are considering Office 365 and will probably move to Sage 50 in the very near future.
We have had various quotes in from server suppliers but have just found out that if we can wait until January we can recover 20% of outlay from local council for relocating to their area.
Therefore, I have decided to build a temporary server to last until January and wondered if the specification is sensible based on requirements and financial outlay being minimal as it is unrecoverable. No point spending a load of money now if it costs as much as the 20% saving.
My suggested Spec.
WHS2011 (£40)
Gigabyte GA-MA770-UD3 770 Socket AM2+ (Salvage from old system)
AMD Athlon 64 X2 6000+ 3GHz Socket AM2 2MB L2 Cache (Salvage from old system)
8GB (4x2GB) DDR2 1066MHz/PC2-8500 XMS2 Memory CL5 2.1V (Salvage from old system)
UPS (£?)
I am considering using 4 new Raptor HDD's with software RAID to build 2 x RAID1, one for OS, one for DATA. We will have a USB backup to an external RAID1. I am still researching Hardware RAID controller benefits and it looks like Hardware is probably more likely due to change of motherboard and compatability issues. Although I realise I can build a new RAID from a backup so not immediately esential.
So, what am I asking? Is this all sensible, achievable or pie in the sky. We have no previous server experience so no-one to manage it. I can build PC's, I can network PC's using windows. I am willing to learn but short on time.
Example of quote for sever.
1 HP PROLIANT ML310 E31270 SERVER £650.00
1 16GB MEMORY KIT £250.00
1 ADAPTEC RAID CONTROLLER £150.00
2 1TB HARD DRIVE (O/S) £100.00
2 4TB HARD DRIVE (DATA) £350.00
1 APC SU750VA £250.00
1 WINDOWS 2012 FOUNDATION SERVER 0/S 15 USER £200.00
1 INSTALLATION £1000.00
Total £2950.00 + VAT
Thanks
John
Wondering if anyone can help me. Sorry for the long winded biog.
We have a small ecommerce business (turnover £2m), currently 4 employees soon moving to 7. We are relocating to new premises (by end of month) and thought it time to have our own sever. Cabling has gone in already.
Currently, we just use a WORKGROUP with 4 PC's running a combo of W7Pro/64, XPPro32 and Vista64 on a Netgear Gigabit ethernet. Email is hosted on our Rackspace website server.
Main software used is Outlook, XL, Word, Quickbooks Pro 2004 and internet browser. Main point of server is for printers, accessing Quickbooks, PDF, Word, XL files and images. Main requirements is fast access to Quickbooks, currently 3 but moving to 5 users.
All PC's are to be built on W7Pro/64. We have built one to test and copes admirably, spec:
Crucial Sport 8GB Kit Ballistix 240-pin DIMM, DDR3 PC3-12800
Intel Pentium G2120 Dual Core Processor
ASRock B75 Pro3-M Motherboard
Samsung EVO 840 120GB
We are considering Office 365 and will probably move to Sage 50 in the very near future.
We have had various quotes in from server suppliers but have just found out that if we can wait until January we can recover 20% of outlay from local council for relocating to their area.
Therefore, I have decided to build a temporary server to last until January and wondered if the specification is sensible based on requirements and financial outlay being minimal as it is unrecoverable. No point spending a load of money now if it costs as much as the 20% saving.
My suggested Spec.
WHS2011 (£40)
Gigabyte GA-MA770-UD3 770 Socket AM2+ (Salvage from old system)
AMD Athlon 64 X2 6000+ 3GHz Socket AM2 2MB L2 Cache (Salvage from old system)
8GB (4x2GB) DDR2 1066MHz/PC2-8500 XMS2 Memory CL5 2.1V (Salvage from old system)
UPS (£?)
I am considering using 4 new Raptor HDD's with software RAID to build 2 x RAID1, one for OS, one for DATA. We will have a USB backup to an external RAID1. I am still researching Hardware RAID controller benefits and it looks like Hardware is probably more likely due to change of motherboard and compatability issues. Although I realise I can build a new RAID from a backup so not immediately esential.
So, what am I asking? Is this all sensible, achievable or pie in the sky. We have no previous server experience so no-one to manage it. I can build PC's, I can network PC's using windows. I am willing to learn but short on time.
Example of quote for sever.
1 HP PROLIANT ML310 E31270 SERVER £650.00
1 16GB MEMORY KIT £250.00
1 ADAPTEC RAID CONTROLLER £150.00
2 1TB HARD DRIVE (O/S) £100.00
2 4TB HARD DRIVE (DATA) £350.00
1 APC SU750VA £250.00
1 WINDOWS 2012 FOUNDATION SERVER 0/S 15 USER £200.00
1 INSTALLATION £1000.00
Total £2950.00 + VAT
Thanks
John