On Sun, Sep 21, 2003 at 10:15:06AM -0700, Stephen Carville wrote: > On Sunday September 21 2003 05:02 am, John Haxby wrote: > > This is far too open-ended a question to answer properly. But I can > > give some general advice based on the sizing stuff we use for Contact. > > I think sizing information for Contact may be available on the web site, > > I don't remember. > > > > Anyway, for web, database, e-mail and file servers the overwhelming need > > is for fast I/O. If you're dealing with less than about 100 active > > users then just go to your favourite hardware emporium and buy the > > cheapest machine they have there. The disk speed will be fine. Memory > > will be fine (256M, I expect), CPU speed will be hopelessly over the > > top. Of course, you won't get a mirrored disk for that so you'll > > suffer when the disk breaks. > > RAID1 between two IDE disks works quite well. I use it for web and mail > services on lightly loaded machines. You have to keep the disks on different > controllers so one disk failing cannot fry the other but most motherboards > come with two controllers anyways. Also for web servers, have a separate devel box where you do all your hacking and rsync the changes over to the server box. Makes life a lot safer and simpler. -- Jack Bowling mailto: jbinpg@xxxxxxx -- Shrike-list mailing list Shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/shrike-list
