Radek Maciaszek wrote: > > Hi, > > I want buy dedicated hardware for ASPSeek. I will index few millions > documents. I start index in my provider but after indexing 370 > thousands I have 2GB data and only 1GB bought from my provider :( > So I decided to make my own server. > > What type od hardware (processor, memory) nad software (system: debian, red-hat, > mandrake?) you can reccomend me for ASPSeek?
Well, hardware depends on how much money do you want to spend on it, and how many documents do you want to index. We use dual-processor Intel boxes with 1-2-4 Gb of RAM and SCSI storage. RAM size is essential for aspseek: absolute minimum is 1 Gb per 10 million of URLs, the more the better, alghough having more than 4 Gb is impractical. SCSI storage should improve disk IO throughput considerably, having hadrware SCSI RAID is even better, although you can go for good old IDE as well. Having more than one CPU is good: ASPseek's index is threaded and so can scale well on SMP systems (unless you index only one site). If you want to run indexing and searching at the same time, SMP system is recommended. Some of ASPseek's "power users" even use two boxes for ASPseek - one for indexing and another for search. As for operating system, I recommend either RedHat or ASPLinux, these are the platforms we develop, test and use ASPseek on, and we have binary RPMS available for these distros. Matt Sullivan also maintains ASPseek's Debian packages, so you can go Debian way as well. Actually, any Linux is fine, as well as you have a sysadmin who knows it ;) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ UIN 7551596 Phone +7 903 6722750 -- Guinness a Day Keeps a Doctor Away (people's wisdom)
