Best Server Setup

[chrsschb]

Originally Posted by rhyotte

EZ Server GMs are Hunter and Basher

Our connection is 30 Mbits/sec Down, 5 Mbits/sec Up from Fiber Optics

Due to the Operating System limitations, it will only use 32 GB of the 48 GB RAM installed.

Qty (2) Intel® Xeon® processor X5550
Qty (2) Intel® Thermal Solution STS100C
Intel® Server Board S5520HC
Intel® Server Chassis SC5650DPNA with 600Watt Power Supply
Intel® Integrated RAID Module (SROMBSASMR)
Qty (2) Seagate* Cheetah* NS.2 450GB SAS HDD’s (ST3450802SS)
48GB DDR3 Memory 12 x 4GB
Samsung* 22X DVDRW SATA Optical Drive
40GB Intel SSD
Intel Remote Management Module 3
Intel 6 Bay Hot Swap Expander Backplane

Complete overkill. Do not waste money building something like this unless you're hosting enterprise level servers.

Second, Fiber connections are synchronous (means the up matches the down), that connection is a cable connection.

[lerxst2112]

Originally Posted by chrsschb

Second, Fiber connections are synchronous (means the up matches the down), that connection is a cable connection.

FiOS would disagree with your synchronous assertion. http://www22.verizon.com/home/fios-f...nternet/#plans

The native capabilities of the connection and the way it is provisioned by the provider are two different things.

[Akkadius]

All has to do with throughput and backplane capacity, if you are on old shitty copper infrastructure and your access gear to the customer premise has only a limited throughput backplane capacity, from the ISP standpoint you have to budget that capacity of both upstream and downstream. It makes more sense to put more into the downstream than the upstream because that's what most customers use.

FiOS is modeled around high customer area densities and asymmetrical profiles are ultimately going to be cheaper for Verizon to not have to provide more gear for fewer customers because of high symmetrical profiles even though symmetrical profiles burn up the backplane budget so to speak. Symmetrical profiles are definitely more feasible with fiber access equipment so it is not necessarily wrong to say that fiber is symmetrical but that is not a specific differentiating property of fiber to the home itself, but rather the capacity of the fiber and the back-plane of the gear that drives access to the customer premise.