Hi Matt,
That's interesting. At the moment, I have 30 odd sites running off one box,
including cfmail and my personal email. The mySQL server is running on the
same machine - DNS is handled by a separate machine. We haven't experienced
any issues as yet, but the idea of running a number of smaller boxes is
interesting.
Do you host this yourself or outsource it?
Will Swain
-----Original Message-----
From: Matt Robertson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 03 November 2006 16:16
To: CF-Talk
Subject: Re: Second Server
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.
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