help ! oh wise monks,
i have a need to buy servers for web serving,
based on linux and the LAMP configuration.

Does anyone have excellent suppliers that they can recommend ?
I am UK based.
The main problem I am having is trying to get a recommendation of price against high performance, with resilience.
If I spend x will I get y performance?
if I spend 2x what performance increase can I expect?
What OS is recommended ? Redhat? version? or other?
hardware - big ram, big hdd, fast cpu - dual or more
software for failover/recovery?
Surely there must be people asking the same questions and getting answers - those Admin's of you - any help would be SO appreciated. many thanks, Johnc
p.s. I am a perl programmer :)

Retitled by holli from 'server vendors'.

In reply to OT: server vendors by j_c

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