There are two critical questions you should ask yourself:
1) What if your server died; say the processor/memory/CPU failed -
will the few-day-outage, while waiting for a spare part, be a problem
for your customers? If so, you will want to consider a second
hot-standby server.
2) What if the serve
On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 10:33 PM, Chris Rowson
wrote:
> On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 5:03 PM, doug livesey wrote:
>>
>> I appreciate the advice there, and that is definitely the route I take
>> with external, client-facing websites (although I use Mampi -- just get a
>> recommendation in there!).
>> T
On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 5:03 PM, doug livesey wrote:
> I appreciate the advice there, and that is definitely the route I take with
> external, client-facing websites (although I use Mampi -- just get a
> recommendation in there!).
> This, however, is for a suite of inter-operating internal apps,
I appreciate the advice there, and that is definitely the route I take with
external, client-facing websites (although I use Mampi -- just get a
recommendation in there!).
This, however, is for a suite of inter-operating internal apps, so the
requirement is to have them hosted internally.
Cheers,
On 23 May 2009, at 16:56, Alan Bell
wrote:
> don't buy hardware, look at renting a virtual private server. You will
> get stacks more bandwidth than you could otherwise afford and you get
> full root access and the ability to do a hard reboot. The processor
> will
> be very fast but the memor
don't buy hardware, look at renting a virtual private server. You will
get stacks more bandwidth than you could otherwise afford and you get
full root access and the ability to do a hard reboot. The processor will
be very fast but the memory will be a bit limited, perfectly fine for
PHP apps, b
On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 12:22 PM, doug livesey wrote:
> Hi -- I may be looking to buy a web server for a number of web apps (RoR
> served with Passenger & Apache) quite soon.
> Could anyone advise me on what hardware to be looking for?
> I would want decent speed, so good processors & RAM, and I
Hi -- I may be looking to buy a web server for a number of web apps (RoR
served with Passenger & Apache) quite soon.
Could anyone advise me on what hardware to be looking for?
I would want decent speed, so good processors & RAM, and I would like, if
possible, for it to be quite clever about power u
