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I’ve been looking for a new webserver for a while now and had pretty much decided what I was going to get. The process is the careful balancing between cost and features along with room for future expansion. Transfering clients from one server to another is a very time and cost hungry endeavor, so one doesn’t want to do it very often of course. As I said, I’d pretty much decided which one, and I almost ordered it lastnight, but decided to wait. I almost ordered it again earlier this morning, but again decided to wait. I wanted to double check with a colleague of mine that hosts with the same company to make sure I wasn’t making a mistake.

I sort of decide that I should just do it, because I wanted to have plenty of time to get it running to full efficiency and move everyone nice and slowly. I go to order it and behold, they’re now sold out. Damn that procrastination!

Of course, I have more options, I don’t absolutely need the particular webserver I had in mind. I could go for one slightly less powerful than the original choice (of course it is still infinitely better than the current one) or I could go for one that I think is excessively powerful for the current and forseable future needs. The problem with the latter choice is that the cost is rather high, which decreases the profit margin enough to make it questionable. Of course, though, having all that raw power would be very nice and would allow for nearly indefinite future expansion, hmmm…. Dual XEON processors, yum! I just don’t think it is necessary.

The less powerful one from the original choice is a Celeron, I just don’t like the idea of using that sort of processor in a webserver, the cache isn’t good enough in my opinion. In the same general pricerange as the Dual Xeon there’s a 3+GHz P4 option, but I think the Dual Xeons would be better.

I think I’m going to end up procrastinating even more, because I just don’t know the best direction to go right now.