[nflug] Server Specs - Need Some Comments

[Darin Perusich]

as mark said, i'd go with a 2 server minimum, one for apache and a 
second for mysql. for your mysql server any baseline dell server with a 
512+ memory will be more than enough. pretty much the same for the 
apache server as well, but you might kick up the memory a bit. save your 
money on the scsi drives and xeon chips for another apache server if you 
need it.

i just setup a mysql server for a friends online dating site, 1x2.4GHz 
P4, 2Gb memory, plus one replication machine in a HA setup. there are 6 
apache server in front of it and they see about 30K+ hits daily. the 
mysql server doesn't even blink an eye and is screaming fast.

good luck.

Frank Kumro wrote:
> I am working on a new contract and one priority is to set up a LAMP
> server. I have set up many before however this one will have 500,000
> records that are searchable in the MySQL database. Since I have never
> worked with this much data I was wondering if the LUG can give me some
> specs for the server. PHP4 will be used for searching unless the
> performance is horrible, but I will deal with that when I begin
> testing. What I was thinking for hardware is
> 1) SCSI drives
> 2) 2GB of ram (maybe more maybe less??)
> 3) 2 processors (Xeon, is 1 good enough?)
> 
> As you can see I only have a vague idea. Thanks in advance guys!
> --
> Frank
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Darin Perusich
Unix Systems Administrator
Cognigen Corp.
darinper at cognigencorp.com
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