Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
How beefy are your requirements? Have you considered getting a Xen domU instance somewhere? Cheaper and performance is good. Of course, if you need tons of fast disk I/O and dedicated CPU, that may not be enough.
At least two of the machines in question would be running fairly heavily-used MySQL instances (currently a 5G or so database) with replication and the others are Apache/Java app servers for the most part, so likely to perform better if given copious RAM.
None of it's completely monstrous, but possibly a bit much for a virtual box, especially as if all goes to plan we'd like to be doing a lot more traffic than we are now in the next few months.
Thanks for the idea though. S