I have a server that is hosted in San Francisco. I have several sites which are not doing a ton of traffic. We are working to change this and I also would like to move my hosting back to Texas. That being said, I was hoping that I could pick the brains of some of the experts out there.
How is CF on Linux? I have tried it with 4.5 and I think 6 but never had much success. Would it be better to stick with windows?
CF on Linux is awesome but if you are not able to maintain it then it would do you much harm to switch. You also need to consider how often you run things that are only available for windoze such as payment gateway com objects.
What are the recommended system requirements....not minimums.
The best that you can afford.
Anyone know a good email server? We are currently using Mailsite. Not real problems with it as of yet, but always interested in something better.
How large is your client base? Personally I don't think it gets much better than sendmail for over 1000 users and that if you can't support it yourself I think it's well worth the money to outsource it. You can learn enough in about an hour to handle the simple admin steps such as adding users, domains, ... just be sure you have somebody on call 24/7 with a guaranteed response time to handle any failures.
At what point (traffic or load wise) should I separate the database from the web server?
Do this on day one unless you absolutely cannot afford the expense. In that case do it as soon as you are able to borrow the money.
One exception that I have made is to run MySQL on my Linux web servers. For one it's free so when I build a new web server it too can have it's own copy of MySQL so the performance of server one isn't affected by the DB usage of sites on server 2. Second I have never been able to task MySQL with anything that was able to drag the server down so far that web services were affected and vice versa.
Thanks for any and all help!!
Kevin
