Yes, Robby is right on this one too. I was going to comment about Xen also, but I thought I'd let you get the hardware part right first.
Not sure about memory consumtion on specific chips or anything... the best thing to do is to contect your vendor and let them do the homework. Its not going to cost any extra and it'll save you the time! On Mar 2, 11:00 am, Robby Russell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mar 1, 2008, at 2:06 AM, John Griffiths wrote: > > > > > > > Hi all, > > > With all the mini-apps i'm writing I've decided to build my own 1U > > rack > > server, but need a few pointers on calculating power consumption. > > > Basically the colocation place i've selected for the device has a > > limit > > of 0.5 Amps of power per box, so need to keep the power down below > > that > > limit otherwise it'll cost more to host. > > > A friend of mine is doing the same, I can build and setup the system > > myself but never mastered power calculations at school so a bit > > alien to > > me working out power load, etc. ;-) > > > I'm going to be using something like... > > > CPU: > > AMD 64 chip [heard they're good for lower power + speed] > > > O/S: > > Fedora 8 [works well with AMD cpu's low-power state] > > > HDD: > > 2x SATA2 WD Drives [500gb each, in a RAID 1 config] > > Just a side note. > > When you setup the machine... I'd *highly* recommend setting up > separate XEN instances. We do this for a lot of our Managed Hosting > customers at Planet Argon. > > Basically, we install the base OS (Linux... usually Debian) with XEN > and then isolate the various pieces of the application for future > scaling needs. > > 1 - Web server that balances to the app servers > 1 - Database server (+1 if you have resources to setup a replication > db xen instance) > 2-3 - App servers (nginx + mongrel clusters) > 1 - Asset server (memcached, images, etc..) > > This ends up working nicely and is a good starting point for future > scaling needs. > > Robby > > -- > Robby Russell > Founder and Executive Director > > PLANET ARGON, LLC > Design, Development, and Hosting with Ruby on Rails > > http://www.planetargon.com/http://www.robbyonrails.com/ > aim: planetargon > > +1 503 445 2457 > +1 877 55 ARGON [toll free] > +1 815 642 4068 [fax] --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Deploying Rails" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-deployment@googlegroups.com 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
