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Re: IDE or SCSI ??



On Tue, 04 Jul 2000, Chris Wagner wrote:
>Ok, ok, I'm late as hell but I had to reply. :)  You don't need SCSI unless
>you're doing something fancy or insane.  Giving Apache more RAM is *vastly*
>better than giving it SCSI.  The RAM lets you cache everything so the hard
>disk becomes not very important for I/O.  Max out your motherboard's RAM
>capacity.

One thing to consider is the amount of load.  300 domains * 300 visits /
86400 seconds in a day = 1.03 visits per second.

For such a small load I doubt that you'll need much IO, memory, or CPU,
unless it's all CGI-BIN stuff.


Russell Coker


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>At 10:18 AM 6/13/00 +0200, Roger Abrahamsson wrote:
>>On Tue, 13 Jun 2000, [ Francho ] wrote:
>>
>>> I have mount a new Internet Server whith (apache, mysql, bind and qmail).
>It will be about 300 domains allocated (each domain will recibed about 300
>visits/day).
>>> 
>>> What hardware do you recommend ???
>>> 
>>> Thanks in advance.
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>>> <<< Net.Zaragoza@FchX
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>>SCSI!! I/O is your main concern.. Then lots of memory.. CPU comes only as
>>the third factor.
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