just spoil yourself with decent disks and an RX and TX NIC - start and go fishing - it will do the rest !!
lol
Just ordered it for 175€. Hope it arrives tomorrow or Wednesday
Specs are:
2x Intel Xeon X5530 Quad Core CPU 2,40GHz
32GB RAM
3x 500GB SAS 3,5 Zoll HDD -> much wow!
2x 500GB SATA 3,5 Zoll HDD -> much wow!
1x DVD-ROM
1x PERC 6/I RAID Controller
1x iDRAC 6
4x Gigabit Ethernet RJ 45
2x Power supply 870W
I ordered an extra H700 6 Gb/s PCI-E x8 512MB SAS RAID Controller for 50€ incl. cables and a battery so I can use SSD's.
First server for me. Nice toy for that price. For 2 Raspberries 4 w. 4 GB you pay more (at least here in Germany).
the best I could get was 7.5% usage load out of it
Must be good programming skills and good db design. However. Are you going to buy a 2nd CPU?
Will get back to you when it arrives and I think I have a slight idea of what I'm doing on the machine