Hello, Our servers are currently co-located in the US (we're in Asia) and the current setup which is 8 years old or so is showing signs of age (bad ethernet ports, no redundancy, etc). I'm trying to come up with a new design for the new system.
Switching to a different coloc is not an option at the moment (it requires me the fly to the US may take time due to VISA, budget etc) so I'm thinking getting a couple of rented MPS (managed private server) will do the trick. We're currently averaging 11-12Mbps and peak above 20Mbps during weekdays. I would like to design the setup as follows: P1 - P2 (2 pound servers) w1,w2,w3,w4 (4 apache servers, or more) We have a CDN so I'll configure the 2 pounds to direct static objects there. Everything else redirects to the backend apache servers. I wanted them to redirect because each rented MPS is only allowed 1TB per machine per month (I've yet to get an answer what will happen if we reach the limit, if it will temporarily be cut or we get billed for the excess bandwidth). The major issue first is security. Unlike our previous setup where every machine is behind a PIX, the MPS will be scattered to the the ISPs network. We're not hosting anything confidential so I'll just lock down the machines the best I can (firewall, chroot, tripwire, etc). The specs of each machine are as follows: Xeon Dual Core 5000 1GB RAM 1TB bandwidth 100Mbps port FreeBSD 6.x What would be the pros and cons of this setup? Or coloc is still our best bet and we'll just hire someone to do the physical redesign for us to add redundancy? regards, FF2000 -- To unsubscribe send an email with subject unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] for questions.
