On 2/10/07, Neil Schneider <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
512Mb of RAM 1024 Mb into swap. Slow processor, using Spamassassin, mailman, apache, plone and mysql all at the same time. It's just way overloaded. We're going to buy a new server as soon as we can get a price and find a place to buy it. Any suggestions? I'm thinking Dual processors and about 4Gb of RAM ought to do it.
At the risk of irritating everyone (Chuckle, the devil makes me do it.) why not host it on Amazon EC2? It would be a good learning experience for all. You have complete control of your instances. You have root access to each one, and you can interact with them as you would any machine. Each instance predictably provides the equivalent of a system with a 1.7Ghz x86 processor, 1.75GB of RAM, 160GB of local disk, and 250Mb/s of network bandwidth. Pricing - Pay only for what you use. - $0.10 per instance-hour consumed (or part of an hour consumed). - $0.20 per GB of data transferred into/out of Amazon (i.e., Internet traffic). - $0.15 per GB-Month of Amazon S3 storage used for your images (charged by Amazon S3). Data transferred within the Amazon EC2 environment, or between Amazon EC2 and Amazon S3, is free of charge (i.e., $0.00 per GB). This works out to $72/instance-month + bandwidth + storage. I don't know about the bandwidth but the storage at $0.15/GB-month probably won't amount to much. What does colocation cost us now? And how important really is 24x7 ? Has anyone ever done an analysis of the logs to detrmine what the traffic patterns are? Like I said, "The devil makes me do it." BobLQ -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
