I have found that even the larger hosting companies such as Rackspace are pretty clueless when trying to configure even a mid size database server. They gave us a 4 drive raid 5 even after being explicitly asked for a RAID 10. They also put the controller in write through cache mode. Pretty bad config - the server blew chunks, our single drive ATA cheapo box ran significantly faster. I would definatley suggest looking at co-lo. Alex Turner netEconomist On 4/25/05, Chris Kratz <chris.kratz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > It seems the consensus on this list is that when running postgres, Opterons > outperform Xeons by a significant margin not to mention the CS storms > postgres seems to cause on Xeons. We are looking for a hosting service for a > postgresql based application. Unfortunately, it seems most services > standardize on Dell and by extension Xeon hardware. Do anyone have > recommendations for hosting services that would be able to provide Opteron > based hardware and have decent service? Or are we stuck with Xeons? > -- > Chris Kratz > > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- > TIP 9: the planner will ignore your desire to choose an index scan if your > joining column's datatypes do not match > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: subscribe and unsubscribe commands go to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
