sm> On 27 Aug 2003, matt wrote: >> My app is likely to come under some serious load in the next 6 months, >> but the increase will be broadly predictable, so there is time to throw >> hardware at the problem. >> >> Currently I have a ~1GB DB, with the largest (and most commonly accessed >> and updated) two tables having 150,000 and 50,000 rows.
Just how big do you expect your DB to grow? For a 1GB disk-space database, I'd probably just splurge for an SSD hooked up either via SCSI or FibreChannel. Heck, up to about 5Gb or so it is not that expensive (about $25k) and adding another 5Gb should set you back probably another $20k. I use an SSD from Imperial Technology ( http://www.imperialtech.com/ ) for mail spools. My database is way to big for my budget to put in SSD. -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Vivek Khera, Ph.D. Khera Communications, Inc. Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Rockville, MD +1-240-453-8497 AIM: vivekkhera Y!: vivek_khera http://www.khera.org/~vivek/ ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly
