HI all. I'm in a currently all Microsoft house but we are redesigning our current website in Rails complete with ecommerce. We currently get about 25,000 page views and this site will almost be entirely DB driven (though I plan to use some caching whenever possible).
Now for the hardware: I have two Dell Poweredge 1950's with dual dual-core processors, U320 SCSI drives and 16gb of ram that I will put behind a hardware load balancer for serving this Rails site. I also have another Dell Poweredge 2950 with dual dual-core processors, U320 SCSI RAID-5 drives and 16gb of ram that I will use for running the MySQL DB on. These are obviously performance powerhouses but I'm a Rails/MySQL newbie and a Linux idiot. I have a 100% successful development server already up and running on Windows 2003 Server with Apache 2.x ( I think it's 2.3 but it escapes me now) with mod_proxy_balancer, a 5 instance Mongrel cluster and a MySQL instance on it so I know it's possible in Windows if I pony up for the $2000+ Windows Server Enterprise licenses for all 3 machines but if I'll get better performance out of Linux and a cast savings then?? My question. Can anyone suggest what I should consider in order to maximaize the use of this great hardware? I can't find any real definitive RAM specs for linux online but like I said, I know nothing about Linux anyway so I might not even be looking in the right place. Thanks for any assistance! --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Deploying Rails" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-deployment?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
