• Those in need of a quiet and high-performing server should consider the HP ProLiant DL380 G6. It does not exactly fit the description for a server that a beginner in hosting should use. It does not include some major hardware components necessary for it to run but gives you a choice on what to add to it. It was built by HP mainly for high-intensity hosting application environments, anticipating heavy uses, such as hosting several virtual machines at the same time.
  
  

Processors

• The DL380 G6 server supports two dual-core or two quad-core processors running in the same environment. This kind of processing outperforms any server with a single-processor setup. You may choose a processor with four cores and eight threads, each acting as a "subcore" of your processor. Such a processor would represent eight independent processing units. This doubled makes 16 independent processing threads your server can have. Just make sure any processor you get uses the FCLGA1366 socket specification.
  
  

Memory

• A server of this class supports memory of up to 192 GB, although you won't ever be able to reach this point. The highest-performing FCLGA1366 processors support up to 144 GB of active physical memory, no matter how many processors you add on top of that. This limitation happens because of the amount of channels each processor has the design to support. With 18 DIMM slots, you have the capability of adding 18 8GB modules, totaling exactly at 144 GB of memory.
  
  

Network

• HP's DL380 G6 supports a network capacity of 2 GB per second with dual 1GBps ports. You may add to this if you'd like through the machine's expansion slots. The machine has two 1GbE NC382i Multifunction networking ports that support Ethernet. The two network adapters function independently from one another, allowing you to configure them each to have one IP.