[PERFORM] Cloud versus buying my own iron

2016-02-23 Thread Craig James
At some point in the next year we're going to reconsider our hosting environment, currently consisting of several medium-sized servers (2x4 CPUs, 48GB RAM, 12-disk RAID system with 8 in RAID 10 and 2 in RAID 1 for WAL). We use barman to keep a hot standby and an archive. The last time we dug into

[PERFORM] Filesystem and Disk Partitioning for New Server Setup

2016-02-23 Thread dstibrany
I'm about to install a new production server and wanted some advice regarding filesystems and disk partitioning. The server is: - Dell PowerEdge R430 - 1 x Intel Xeon E5-2620 2.4GHz - 32 GB RAM - 4 x 600GB 10k SAS - PERC H730P Raid Controller with 2GB cache The drives will be set up in one RAID-