On 11/3/06, Richard Cooper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Do you think all other services should remain off that box. i.e. should I > keep the > DNS on the website server?
It really depends on how hard your db is being hit. You might have a db server that is underutilized when its a standalone (even so, moving it off the web box is going to be a huge boost to reliability). So far as I can tell DNS isn't much of a burden, at least for me. You might want to consider going to still more boxes; only using cheap little ones instead of big ones. I used to use a couple of BIG badass servers to do everything I need. Now I use five small ones and I am paying something like $200 less per month. Box 1 is primary DNS and statistics Box 2 is antispam gateway, mail server dedicated to cfmail and db/web backup repository Box 3 is database Box 4 is CF/Web Box 5 is secondary dns and 'human' mail All but Box 4 are basic $80/month servers. By dicing the load into little bits like this I can get away with that. If I need to upgrade something I can upgrade just the component I need (or split off to another cheapie box if I must in the few cases where a server does more than one thing), and my upgrade feeds just what needs it. Best of all, by splitting stuff up to this degree I have experienced a huge jump up in reliability, and I was doing pretty good before. Basically nothing ever, ever goes down. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Janitor, MSB Web Systems mysecretbase.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Introducing the Fusion Authority Quarterly Update. 80 pages of hard-hitting, up-to-date ColdFusion information by your peers, delivered to your door four times a year. http://www.fusionauthority.com/quarterly Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:259073 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
