OT - Server spec's, need opinion.

[Kevin Faulkner]

hardware raid or software?

Bryan O'Neal wrote:
> Ok, so I am thinking about moving some stuff in house.  In particular a
> mostly dynamic website that users some backend java and a mail server.
> The mail server is pretty low key, handling maybe 30K messages a day.
> The web server is expected to get about 300K hits a day.  How big of a
> server do I really need?  
> I was thinking Cent OS5 running Apache/TomCat/MySQL with procmail.  And
> I was thinking I could easily getaway with something like a dual core
> 3GHz(x1333FBS) with 4GB Ram and a 4 SAS/SATA disks in a RAID5 area.  
> Suggestions?  Is this going to be big enough or am I low balling it?
>
>
>
> Bryan O'Neal
> Cornerstone Homes & Development, Inc.
> 4220 E. McDowell Rd Ste. #108
> Mesa, AZ 85215
> (480) 505-1900 
> http://www.cornerstonehome.com 
>
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