i am running a PII 350 w/128mg ram and SCSI-2 7200rpm harddrives.
i put out as many at 12K page views a day, nothing compared to Ask at Valueclick,
although my pages are kind of big - about 60K worth.
all of my pages have dynamic content rendered with mod_perl and Embperl and I
suppress browser caching anytime the customer has an active cart. only the gifs
and jpegs are static.
the checkout process is all SSL of course.
i have not yet set-up the reverse proxying etc. on the tuits list.
unless i am running some kind of maintenance (log analysis) etc., this system is
always over 90% idle and never uses the swap space.
keystone was trying to sell me their monitoring and testing service and they
pounded on the machine for a couple of weeks, and it came through with flying
colors. always showing very small error rates and responses rates in the 90th
percentile.
so, i intended this as a starter system, and i was expecting have to upgrade.
but, it looks like it will make another season before it becomes another
firewall, honeypot or internal server.
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Bill Moseley wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm not sure why, but someone asked me to review a bid they received for a
> server to run their site. That's where the $64,000 USD part comes from.
> Whew!
>
> This is not a commerce site (it's a .org), and unlikely to get slashdotted.
> 24/7 is nice, but it's not the end of the world if the server is down for
> 12 hours. The server is normally running about 1.5 hits/second with about
> 30 10MB mod_perl processes. Low database activity. So I imagine an $800
> PC running linux could do the job -- saving $63,200 in the process ;).
>
> Anyway, I've read the Guide on this issue again, and I've looked over the
> High-Availability Linux Project, but I was wondering if anyone knew of
> links or had experience with building a nice small inexpensive and reliable
> server for running mod_perl. Frankly, A single CPU P550 running Linux with
> 1G RAM and a couple fast SCSI drives (and some decent ISP connectivity)
> would more than do the job. But what do I know! Do mod_perl programmers
> know hardware?
>
> So, I'm not looking for any specific advice, or do I want to discuss the
> maintenance issues, but just some basic ideas on hardware, or pointers to
> links you might have found useful.
>
> Like: "I'm running a P550 with 1G, ultra-wide SCSI and 10 hits/second and
> never see any load problem."
>
> or "Check out this link and see how to run two inexpensive boxes in
> parallel to maintain 100% uptime and you even don't have to worry about
> tape backup."
>
> or "No, it's worth running RAID with hot-swappable disks and power supplies."
>
> or "I'll set up that server for $64,000!!" (no, sorry, I'm first in line
> for that job...)
>
> Thanks,
>
> Bill Moseley
> mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
