I'd really like to move our site to a dedicated server, but I'm not
ready to lay down the monthly cash for a multi-SCSI drived 1gig ram
beast -- yet.
Right now we're hosted by the oxymoronically named HostPro. We're on a
shared NT server with a SQL Server ODBC connection and we use PHP to do
a lot of the stuff on the site.
There's stuff that just doesn't work. For example, I have better odds
rolling the dice than hoping that my databse insert form for our
entertainment news will work. Sometimes it does, sometimes it doesn't
and "Support" (they had to name it something I guess) has never been
able to figure out why.
Covering the world of entertainment, we can average 10,000 pageviews a
day but will swing up to 200,000+ on days like the Oscars. We've seen
our bandwidth usage swing from 80meg a day to 3gig.
I'd just like to get into an entry-level dedicated linux server, running
apache, PHP and MySQL. I've looked at Rackspace as other contacts have
recommended them and their entry level system consists of:
750 Mhz Processor
256MB RAM
20GB EIDE Drive
10GB/Month Burstable Bandwidth
I'm looking for input on that configuration. The way I see it, if we're
surviving on a shared server now, we'll still be able to stretch our
feet and grow a bit (as well as being able to do things that we can't in
our shared NT server) before we need to add memory and go to SCSI, etc.
Do you concur?
Thanks!
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Ian Evans
Digital Hit Entertainment - News and Information
http://www.digitalhit.com
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