Provide a little more info, such as: How many calls per/sec, users total, etc. If you aren't doing any CPU intensive work you could go with an older (rackmount?) server with RAID and redundant power. Stability is what *we* were aiming for, however we realized it wasn't cost effective in our case to buy a 2U Dell poweredge for every IAD. If you went that route, Intel would be easier to find in older servers. Else newer stuff AMD is pretty common. As for hard disks, again it would depend just how redundant you would like to be. If this is your "core" per se, you would want it to be a higher grade than your IAD's or server farm. Or just stick with RAID-1 or no raid at all. :-) Linux is a flame war, I stick with Redhat (fedora) because I don't have time to widdle away with Gentoo. I would like to use Gentoo, personally.. With fedora you'll have to make sure all devel is installed, mysql, etc.. By default it won't do it. Good luck! Matt -----Original Message----- From: Nicolás Lagalaye Falcionelli [mailto:berenerchamion@bluebottle.com] Sent: Monday, November 29, 2004 11:16 PM To: serusers(a)lists.iptel.org Subject: [Serusers] Ideal server I have to buy a server to host SER, serweb, sems... It will run the router, the PSTN gateway (using E1 cards), voicemail, web inteface, and billing services. Though number of clients will not be very big I want it to be strong and stable. I must decide the hardware characteristics: I actually do prefer AMD processors rather than Intel. But, what king of processor I should use? How many RAM? About Hard Discs... Will a couple of Serial ATA 120GB discs do? Finally, what Linux dist should I use? Red Hat is strong and enough prepared so as setting up ser, sems, serweb and modules not turn into a headache? Many thanks, Nicolás Lagalaye Falcionelli _______________________________________________ Serusers mailing list serusers(a)lists.iptel.org http://lists.iptel.org/mailman/listinfo/serusers