Well,
I'll let Jer tell you about the box he speced out that we authorized him to buy. It was very nice...
Yesterday I went to a local dealer and said: I need a server, and I have to walk out of here with it in 1 hour. So what I got was the best of what they had.
Which was a dual Athlon MP/2000 system, with a 36Gig SCSI drive (they didn't have the hardware raid card, so it's not raided yet), and 2 Gig of RAM.
Truthfully, our old box (dual Intel 800's) was plenty fast; it's never really had much trouble keeping up. Linux is a remarkably efficient server OS <grin>.
We're going to add a nice Adaptec hardware raid card and raid up the drives.
We're fortunate in that we colocate with our ISP that has multiple OC-3s, and they mostly use the downstream bandwidth...
The eventual plan is to replicate this box at another colo and then have two boxes, DNS round robined, and mirrored.
Jer also wants to put in dedicated mysql servers, but truthfully, we're still figuring out what the best practice is. Anyone want to send us advice (privately would be best; this isn't a sysadmin list), we'll cheerfully listen. I think we have enough egg on our face that we'll humbly accept advice :-/
Cheers,
Jer
On Fri, 2003-04-25 at 08:50, Mike Hearn wrote:
On Fri, 2003-04-25 at 14:28, Jeremy White wrote:
Actually, the old server had enough moxy to handle the load; it had been through several Slashdottings. We've got both the hardware resources and the bandwidth to handle this just fine.
Just out of curiousity, what are the specs of the WineHQ box, and how much bandwidth do you guys have?
I'm currently trying to convince IE5.0 to not suck, hence my frustration and boredom.... need something to gawp at before I go to sleep...
-- Mike Hearn m.hearn@signal.qinetiq.com QinetiQ - Malvern Technology Center