This may be an atypical question for this sub, but I want to get a computer as a web server. Mostly for file download and registration. Would I be better off to get a more powerful dual CPU system or a less powerful quad CPU system. I will have at least 32gb ram, and plan to use a RAID 1 setup.
Both systems I'm looking at would be quad core, but I'm curious if a older gen 4 CPU quad core setup would be better than a newer gen 2 CPU quad core setup. I'm probably looking at no more than a few thousand hits per day (hopefully more) but not 100000/day or something.
4 quad core xeon x7350 Vs 2 quad core xeon e5450
As examples
Any thoughts from the experts?
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