On 12/10/08 20:09, kj wrote:
Ron Johnson wrote:
"Large systems" (meaning mainframes and "traditional" minicomputers
running legacy OSs) are never dedicated. They run application
software as well as RDBMSs.
OK, we're talking about two different things.
Translating that into "modern times", a Linux box *should* be able
to competently run MySQL and Apache at the same time.
And it can. If it couldn't, Plesk would not be selling. In my job I
admin servers that do web, mail, and db for anything from a handful
to 1200+ domains on a single box. No problem there (mostly). But
the load on the server's resources are, in the end, down to to what
your application does.
There are several good reasons why you might want to put your DB on a
separate server.
The grumpy geezer in me says you make a dedicated DB server only if
your hardware and/or OS isn't up to snuff, or your RDBMS is a horrible
pig, and that any modern desktop PC should have enough juice to
support an RDBMS, dozens applications and 10,000 OLTP users.