Virtual server hardware to simulate 3-4 node web farm

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Published on 2010-02-28T02:58:27Z Indexed on 2010/03/11 18:35 UTC
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I would like to get a dedicated server to run VMWare, VirtualBox, or similar.

On this box, I would like to host 3-4 virtual instances of Linux, to act as nodes in a web farm.

Performance is not that important, this would only be for testing and experimenting. I need something sub $1000 (including tax/shipping).

Can someone recommend a pre-built server that would do the trick? I am pretty ignorant of hardware so building one is not going to work for me.

Also, would I need multiple network cards to simulate a web farm or can the virtualization software handle that for me.

Thanks

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