dedicated server configuration

reasonable setup

[soapystar]

Wondered what opinion was a reasonable dedicated server. For a site medium processor intensive and doing 40 gig monthly transfer im looking at:

red hat linux
athlon 2800
1 gig ddr
80 gig 7200 drive

how benefit would you expect with an upgrade to raid or scsi?

[moltar]

Depends what RAID you are talking about. There are several different types.

SCSI harddrive will increase file loading/writing speeds.

[soapystar]

im just wondering at what point you think a site needs or would benefit from it.

[moltar]

It all depends what sort of site you have. Is it all static or do you use a lot of database calls and dynamic pages? What kind of traffic is it? Large file downloads or pure pages?

What you need to think about is your server load and website size. And think for future too. What works today, might not work in a year from now.

[soapystar]

its basically static pages with around 1 million page views monthly.

[moltar]

Just about any server can handle that. It's about 23 page views per minute. I believe PII 233 with 32MB of RAM can handle that. What you mentioned in your first post should definitely work for your site + plenty left.

[soapystar]

right, so i can downgrade now...nice :-)

BTW would 32mb ram even cover the os?

[blaze]

How much money do you lose per hour of downtime?

If you hard drive isn't raid, you could be down for up to a day on a drive failure.

You might want to get redundant power supplies as well, though I have had fewer issues with those.

[moltar]

soapystar: it would cover the OS! Depends on the config of course.

RAID is definitely a good idea. But if one is on a tight budget, daily back ups would be OK too. Providing that your hosting company guarantees fast hardware replacement.

[soapystar]

makes me wonder why the current host is complaining its gobbling up to much server resources on its current virtual host.