Re: [GENERAL] sizing of a server

2006-08-09 Thread Joshua D. Drake
The best way of finding out is to do some testing - use a standard desktop machine (or laptop) and see how that performs. Make sure you have a realistic mix and amount of data though. If I had to guess, I'd buy a cheap server with some SATA disks (at least 2 so you can mirror them) and as mu

Re: [GENERAL] sizing of a server

2006-08-09 Thread Richard Huxton
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would like to create a database server with postgres web application. My DB size will be 20GB. I will write 1 a day with until 10 to 15 simultanous write. How could I size my server (memory, CPU, ...) ? The only reliable way is to do some testing. Now 10,000 rows