Re: [Blind-sysadmins] centos was cpu recommendation

Hi, Personal opinion, and I'm probably about to start a massive flame war, so there's the disclaimer: avoid Plesk and I say that because qmail comes with it and I wouldn't trust that thing as far as I could throw my apartment building. I'd much rather go with cPanel. Dave. On 11/17/12, MIKE wrote:

That's one of the ones I had planned to use. I've noticed that cpanel and most of the different control panels work really well with centos.

-----Original Message----- From: Blind-sysadmins [mailto:blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org] On Behalf Of David Mehler Sent: Friday, November 16, 2012 9:05 AM To: Blind sysadmins list Subject: Re: [Blind-sysadmins] cpu recommendation

Hello,

I also use CentOS as well as other distros, if I were doing a hosting business CentOS is what I'd use. I've done ssh-based installs, as well as unattended kickstart installs.

Hth Dave.

On 11/16/12, MIKE wrote:

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Hi,

You said you use centos I am working on setting up a small hosting business but the issue is setting up centos how are you doing it when it comes to an install?

-----Original Message----- From: Blind-sysadmins [mailto:blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org] On Behalf Of Scott Granados Sent: Friday, November 16, 2012 7:18 AM To: Blind sysadmins list Subject: Re: [Blind-sysadmins] cpu recommendation

Be creative and look on places like ebay for hardware. I've bought things like Net App filers and really big cisco iron for my home lab.:) (I used to have a pair of 6513 switches for a coffee table) Ebay and craigslist are usually good places to find equipment on the cheap. My old employer used to give away their old iron, I got a pile of Dell R710 servers for the cost of lunch. I would definitely go the route of learning a unix environment. Your Mac terminal is a quick place to get used to the basic commands. I like CentOS Linux myself but you can download a flavor called Vinux that has screen reader functionality built right in, it's also available in VM image.

Having a large powerful box for quick prototyping is nice. It's handy to be able to spin up virtual machines instead of actual hardware for simple basic prototyping or experimentation. There are network simulation tools that also do a similar thing and require a lot of CPU to run the router code instances.

How's that?

Thanks Scott

On Nov 16, 2012, at 7:37 AM, Vincent van Itallie wrote:

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Out of curiosity::

Why do you run those vm's all at the same time? Is it because of training practices which you need to follow?

I am having a semilar question.

At the moment i am training to renew my microsoft certifications because my employer request this.

And i am not sure which strategy I should follow. I have a macbook air with 8 gig of ram bt a SSD hart drive. I am thinking of buying / building a huge machine with enough capacity to run vmware or Hyper-V to get my lap up and running. I am thinking to chose for vmware so I can also do linux stuff because of future employment and offcorse more knowledge.

Anyone a advice for me?

Thanks in advance,

Vincent. from

Op 15 nov. 2012, om 18:39 heeft John G. Heim het volgende geschreven:

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I need to buy a new mobo, CPU, and RAM before December 31. Any recommendations on a CPU? I intend to run linux with Windows running in a VMWare Workstation virtual machine. Sometimes I run 2 or 3 vms at once so I'd prefer a qua-core CPU.

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