the words "shared NT server" make a chill run up my spine.
apache will beat any MS webserver hands down, and
overall, linux is more stable (and usually a lot
faster and easier to configure) than NT.
MS makes great user-interfaces and office software,
*not* great server software... i'd go with linux
for such a popular website that can see huge spikes
in bandwith.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ian Evans [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Friday, May 18, 2001 4:52 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [PHP] Server limits/recommendations
>
>
> I'd really like to move our site to a dedicated server, but I'm not
> ready to lay down the monthly cash for a multi-SCSI drived 1gig ram
> beast -- yet.
>
> Right now we're hosted by the oxymoronically named HostPro. We're on a
> shared NT server with a SQL Server ODBC connection and we use PHP to do
> a lot of the stuff on the site.
>
> There's stuff that just doesn't work. For example, I have better odds
> rolling the dice than hoping that my databse insert form for our
> entertainment news will work. Sometimes it does, sometimes it doesn't
> and "Support" (they had to name it something I guess) has never been
> able to figure out why.
>
> Covering the world of entertainment, we can average 10,000 pageviews a
> day but will swing up to 200,000+ on days like the Oscars. We've seen
> our bandwidth usage swing from 80meg a day to 3gig.
>
> I'd just like to get into an entry-level dedicated linux server, running
> apache, PHP and MySQL. I've looked at Rackspace as other contacts have
> recommended them and their entry level system consists of:
>
> 750 Mhz Processor
> 256MB RAM
> 20GB EIDE Drive
> 10GB/Month Burstable Bandwidth
>
> I'm looking for input on that configuration. The way I see it, if we're
> surviving on a shared server now, we'll still be able to stretch our
> feet and grow a bit (as well as being able to do things that we can't in
> our shared NT server) before we need to add memory and go to SCSI, etc.
>
> Do you concur?
>
> Thanks!
> --
> Ian Evans
> Digital Hit Entertainment - News and Information
> http://www.digitalhit.com
>
>
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