"Pritchard, Kenneth" wrote:
> Hello,
> I am going to help a friend set up a web server. He has someone else
> hosting his site now, and says it serves about 900 megs per day. His
> plan is to buy / build a new box and locate it at his office with a
> DSL connection. We are going to be accessing a mySQL database. I
> am looking for recommendations on several things, including CPU,
> memory, and drives (SCSI or IDE). Additionally, I wanted to know if
> anyone thought that the database and web server should be on separate
> drives or even separate servers. I appreciate any insight offered.
Dual processor SCSI will give you excellent performance.
Don't even think about IDE for a high-traffic server (it leeches the CPU badly).
I would spread the data across as many drives as possible.
Having two CPU's really does help, and is not ridiculously expensive.
-Reeves
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