I am pricing out two servers right now.
One server will be an Apache/PHP web server. The other will be a
MySQL database server.
I plan to install OpenBSD 3.9-stable and PHP and MySQL packages.
These server will be Dell PowerEdge 1950.
Each will have a Dual Core Xeon 5060 (3.20Ghz with 1066Mhz FSB).
Knowing the setups I'm gonna be using (the one's mentioned above),
and I gonna get much performance increase by adding a second
processor (the same type of course) to these server?
Is OpenBSD and Apache/PHP gonna take advantage of a second processor
and show some decent increase in performance or am I throwing money
away on the second processor?
Same for OpenBSD and MySQL. Am I gonna be throwing money away by
purchasing a second processor for it?
Lastly, default server will be coming with 1 GB of RAM. I plan to
upgrade both servers to 4 GB of RAM each? Is this worth spending the
money or am I wasting it here as well?
I don't mind spending the money on extra RAM and processors if the
server setups I'm planning on using will take advantage of it. I'm
too new to OpenBSD to know if I would wise in the extra spending or not.
Thanks in advanced,
Eric Stewart
