Re: [GENERAL] Question about hosting and server grade

2009-03-26 Thread Ivan Sergio Borgonovo
On Wed, 25 Mar 2009 13:19:12 -0600 Scott Marlowe scott.marl...@gmail.com wrote: Spend your money on more RAM, (32G isn't much more than 16G and I've seen it make a world of difference on our servers). Spend it on disks. Number of disks is often more important than RPM etc. Spend it on fast

Re: [GENERAL] Question about hosting and server grade

2009-03-26 Thread Sam Mason
On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 09:06:03AM +0100, Ivan Sergio Borgonovo wrote: Could IO load show up as apparent CPU load? I may not be interpreting you correctly; but, as I understand it, if your IO subsystem is too slow then your CPUs are going to be idling. So if your CPUs are sitting at 100%

Re: [GENERAL] Question about hosting and server grade

2009-03-26 Thread Alan Hodgson
On Thursday 26 March 2009, Ivan Sergio Borgonovo m...@webthatworks.it wrote: Could IO load show up as apparent CPU load? It would show up as CPU busy in iowait state. If the CPU is actually busy it would show mostly in user state, some in system. -- Even a sixth-grader can figure out that

[GENERAL] Question about hosting and server grade

2009-03-25 Thread Phoenix Kiula
Hi. I have a questionf or people who run high traffic websites. We are considering a new dedicated server host for a set of 25 domains, about 5 of which are very high traffic (80 million clicks a day each). A lot of this is VIEW content, but there may be a million or so INSERTs and UPDATEs. I am

Re: [GENERAL] Question about hosting and server grade

2009-03-25 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 11:42 AM, Phoenix Kiula phoenix.ki...@gmail.com wrote: Hi. I have a questionf or people who run high traffic websites. We are considering a new dedicated server host for a set of 25 domains, about 5 of which are very high traffic (80 million clicks a day each). A lot

Re: [GENERAL] Question about hosting and server grade

2009-03-25 Thread Joshua D. Drake
On Wed, 2009-03-25 at 23:12 +0530, Phoenix Kiula wrote: Hi. I have a questionf or people who run high traffic websites. My question: What's the high end recommendation? Is the following config of 4 x quadcore Dunnington Intels with 4 disks on RAID 10 be good enough for the above sites? Can