Any input before we go ahead?

[funkee]

We are about to buy the hardware to build 9 1U servers. They break down like this:

Two LVS (linux virtual server) load balancers (one will be a hot stand by)

Specs:
PIII 800 (133)
512MB PC133 Micron RAM
(1) 20.0G ATA100 7200RPM 2M cache 75GXP 07N3928
ASUS CUSI-FX mother board
1 Ethernet Card

Five Webservers (Red Hat 7.0 + Apache + PHP) these do alot of php

Specs:
PIII 800 (133)
768MB PC133 Micron RAM
(1) 20.0G ATA100 7200RPM 2M cache 75GXP 07N3928
ASUS CUSI-FX mother board
1 Ethernet Card

Two Database Servers (hot replicated Red Hat 7.0 + MySQL)

Specs:
PIII 800 (133)
1024MB PC133 Micron RAM
(1) 30.0G ATA100 7200RPM 2M cache 75GXP 07N3928
ASUS CUSI-FX mother board

Plus Two 16 port switches.

Any input or recomendations before we go ahead with this? Thanks.

[sugarkane]

Sounds good to me - this is almost identical to the setup I'm currently building :)

I'd consider changing the drives to SCSI if possible, but it's not really essential.

[Brett_Tabke]

I agree with the scsi comment SugarKane. Other than that, I'd want to know more about what type sites, how much traffic, and how many sites are going to be parked on it. As fast as prices are falling and my personal choice - I'd go with a 1gig Anthlon and a gigabyte dual bios mb before the p3's.

[Air]

Agreed on previous comments, and I'd up the memory on the webservers to 1 gig. The load balancers should be fine with 512MB.

[Mike_Mackin]

I agree with the scsi comment SugarKane.

PS: make sure you have a power source :)

[DaveAtIFG]

You may want to explore KingMax PC133 or even PC150 memory. It uses a fairly new technology, TinyBGA, Bubble Grid Array, not Pin Grid Array. DRAM chips are smaller, less power and heat, etc.

I've been using PC133 with a Duron mildly overclocked for nearly 6 months, it's very quick and stable. "Extreme overclockers" report good results too. It's about 2/3 the cost of Micron or the other name brand modules.

[funkee]

The reason we chose IDE over SCSI on the web servers was because of very low disk i/o. Our entire site is about 20megs of php code plus images. We can easily pull the entire thing into ram.

The site is doing about 12,000,000 _page views_ a day (no stats on number of hits) and right now there is a single database server doing 1400 queries per second. (dual PIII 650s + 1 GIG ram)