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Originally Posted by DomainerZone
Is dual core good enough? I will spring for the dual core-dual Opterons, if I have too. The thing that sucks about that is the memory I need for the mobo. That crap is expensive, too.
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Well I do not know what type of websites you plan on running. But probably 50%+ of the web servers out there are single processor (single core) servers. This server is just a single core P4 3.0GHZ with Hyper Threading. But it has 2gigs of ram. It should handle 300+ users on the forum with ease. I would say ram is probably one of the most important things in a server. If this server had 512mb of ram it may only hold 100 users on the forum. The more ram a server has the better MySQL is going to run.
Depending on what you plan to do I would start out with a dual core processor and at least 2GB of ram and no more than 4GB of ram. Depending if your going to use a desktop motherboard or not ram should be cheap. 2GB of DDR 400 ram cost me about $180, money well spent!
