Well, with those questions alot of variables come into play.
We are currently running Links SQL on the following configuration.
Quad Pentium III 600Mhz
1 Gig ECC SDRAM
2 x 9gig Cheetah LVD drives mirrored for system / os / apache files etc.
128mb RAID 0 Controller.
Dual Fast Ethernet Adapters into a Cisco Cat5509 (inet pipe)
Dual Fast Ethernet Adapters into a Cisco 2924 (private network for DB server)
The DB Server is running on identical machine except the DB files (mysql) (we are waiting for the oracle port) are located on a NetApp 760 with Dual Fast Eternet Connections in to the Cat2929.
As far as bandwidth etc, well currently we are pulling about 8mb/sec sustained, but we are expecting to be at 22mb / sec sustained in the next 2 months and over 50mb/sec in 6 months.
With this kind of volume we are server logging turned off, if we kept logs the poor machine would melt. Therefore as per hits etc.. dunno don't care... I just care out the companies bottom line, if it goes up, obivously traffic is up.
Email etc, well that is all handled in another setup, we are currently looking to implement a caching solutions to take some of the hits off the html / image server, just make it there for serving the cgi.
Anyways enough of my config, as for services etc, when I started out, I wanted to see an ISP that would allow a daily build without killing the process, also the verifing of the links is important.. so mainly the ability to run extended cgi processes, maybe in low peak times.
As for email... /usr/sbin/sendmail should be cool for most people, I personally use the smtp... too much load if it's done locally.
apache/modperl/dbi/mysql all that should be fine.
and yes this is and adult based SE :)
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Eric Geiler
President
Internet Entertainment Corporation
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Eric Geiler
Links SQL User
We are currently running Links SQL on the following configuration.
Quad Pentium III 600Mhz
1 Gig ECC SDRAM
2 x 9gig Cheetah LVD drives mirrored for system / os / apache files etc.
128mb RAID 0 Controller.
Dual Fast Ethernet Adapters into a Cisco Cat5509 (inet pipe)
Dual Fast Ethernet Adapters into a Cisco 2924 (private network for DB server)
The DB Server is running on identical machine except the DB files (mysql) (we are waiting for the oracle port) are located on a NetApp 760 with Dual Fast Eternet Connections in to the Cat2929.
As far as bandwidth etc, well currently we are pulling about 8mb/sec sustained, but we are expecting to be at 22mb / sec sustained in the next 2 months and over 50mb/sec in 6 months.
With this kind of volume we are server logging turned off, if we kept logs the poor machine would melt. Therefore as per hits etc.. dunno don't care... I just care out the companies bottom line, if it goes up, obivously traffic is up.
Email etc, well that is all handled in another setup, we are currently looking to implement a caching solutions to take some of the hits off the html / image server, just make it there for serving the cgi.
Anyways enough of my config, as for services etc, when I started out, I wanted to see an ISP that would allow a daily build without killing the process, also the verifing of the links is important.. so mainly the ability to run extended cgi processes, maybe in low peak times.
As for email... /usr/sbin/sendmail should be cool for most people, I personally use the smtp... too much load if it's done locally.
apache/modperl/dbi/mysql all that should be fine.
and yes this is and adult based SE :)
-
Eric Geiler
President
Internet Entertainment Corporation
-
Eric Geiler
Links SQL User
