[FX.php List] [OFF] Mac Hardware for FMS?

[Dale Bengston]

Joel,

If you need Mac hardware for a server, why not buy Mac server  
hardware? I would look at XServe instead of Mac Pro. You will not  
regret it.

Dale


On Sep 2, 2009, at 1:02 PM, Joel Shapiro wrote:

> Hi all
>
> Hardware's not my strong suit...
>
> I've got a new client that's contracted me to switch them from Lasso  
> to PHP.  Their current hadware/network setup (FMS + other duties on  
> 1 machine, Lasso/WebServer on another) is unstable and their IT  
> consultant is recommending they buy a new machine instead of trying  
> to clean up all the problems they're having now.
>
> I've recommended they switch to a one-machine FMS config and move  
> everything else to the other server.  The IT guy is suggesting they  
> get a new Mac Pro for the FMS machine for $3700, but that seems  
> excessive to me.  (Is it?)
>
> (The IT guy regularly "likes to have a second hard drive in there  
> mirroring the primary one, to lessen the downtime potential".  I  
> already got him to exclude the live DBs from his nightly SuperDuper  
> clone backups, but it seems to me that for an FMS-only machine, it's  
> really only necessary to regularly backup the DBs and maybe the  
> logs, and everything else on the machine can be "cloned" just  
> whenever the OS or website is updated... since everything except the  
> DBs should remain constant... right?)
>
> I'd appreciate any thoughts or recommendations.  Can you think of  
> other Macs that would be fully sufficient but not as expensive?
>
> TIA,
> -Joel
>
> ## CLIENT:
> - Nonprofit agency w/ 12 FMP users, although rarely if ever all at  
> the same time.  A couple users work in the DB all day long.
> - Their FM/PHP website is used 24 hrs/day for class registrations  
> and "store" purchases.  They receive up to 40 orders per day through  
> the site.
> - DB was migrated to FM9 by their previous FM consultant, and  
> contains 25 .fp7 files.
>
> ## CURRENT FMS MACHINE*:
> Power Mac G5
> Dual 2 GHz
> 3 GB DDR SDRAM
> OS X Server 10.4.11
> *This machine is also used as a file server and had been used as a  
> Now Up-to-Date server
> Lasso/Web Server is on an even older machine (I can't get specs  
> right now)
>
> ## RECOMMENDED FMS WPE MACHINE:
> Mac Pro $3,699.00:
> Two 2.26GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon
> 6GB (6x1GB)
> 1TB 7200-rpm Serial ATA 3Gb/s
> 1TB 7200-rpm Serial ATA 3Gb/s
> NVIDIA GeForce GT 120 512MB
> One 18x SuperDrive
> OS X Server 10.6.x*
> * Snow Leopard would require them to get FMS10; they have FMS9 now.
>
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