What's your dedicated server configuration? - GoFuckYourself.com

Jinn · 11-21-2001, 02:24 PM

Hello, everyone:
I never had any dedicated server before for a high traffic site. So I want to ask you experienced webmasters for some help. I am wondering what configuration would be good enough for, say, 200GB /month transfer? I would also like to know what kind of server you have (cpu speed, memory, hard drive, etc.) and what's your monthly bandwidth. And what OS are you using, FreeBSD, Linux, Windows?

I am seriously considering a dedicated server. My site isn't reach 200GB transfer yet, but it's getting close. And my PHP programming needs more functionality and freedom on software installation. So any help will be very appreciated.

Thank you everyone,
Jinn

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quiet · 11-21-2001, 02:35 PM

freebsd on all 6 boxes.

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heymatty · 11-21-2001, 03:10 PM

I have redhat7 on mine, doing about 400 gigs per month. I have 512 ram but you can probably get away with less for 200 gigs.

But the main difference between my current server and the previous one is the quality of the apache installation. If your apache build is not up to par the whole thing will be very unstable.

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[This message has been edited by heymatty (edited 11-21-2001).]

onlyreal · 11-21-2001, 03:16 PM

if you are newbie
try raqs

they can handle 200gb bandwith

FreeOnes · 11-21-2001, 03:39 PM

I have 4 dual 1 Ghz P3 systems, each with 1 Gb RAM, 36 Gb SCSI disk. One of them is doing 5000 Gb per month "easily". Of course they are all running on FreeBSD.

oscer · 11-21-2001, 03:45 PM

I use Freebsd For my OS with a Custom Configured Kernal and Apache which is Custom Configured

Our Servers are PIII 866 with 512 megs ram normally Now we are starting to use 1 gig ram

as fars as slicing the hard drive

/usr 2 gig
/var 2 gig
/Swap 1 gig
/ 200 meg
/logs 5 gig

Secound Drive

/www 18 gig

THis is a Normal configuration

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Coke · 11-21-2001, 04:39 PM

Most of these configurations are a little too high for 200GB

What I'd recommend is something of that sort:

P3 800
512MB SDRAM
20GB HD

We mainly use a customised version of Redhat Linux 7.1 which has been rock-stable and fast for months.
Using such a configuration you can push quite a lot more than 200GB so you've room to grow which is very important.

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RK · 11-21-2001, 05:14 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Coke:
What I'd recommend is something of that sort:

P3 800
512MB SDRAM
20GB HD

Using such a configuration you can push quite a lot more than 200GB so you've room to grow which is very important.

Yeah, I would recommend about the same except use 866 Mhz CPU and a 40 GB HDD since these are made better than the 20 GB HDDs.

A Quad Xeon 700Mhz with 2 MB Cache, 16 GB ECC 133 Mhz Registered SDRAM, a Mylex eXtremeRAID 200 64M Quad U-160 controller and ten 73 GB 15K RPM SCSI HDDs in RAID5 (657 GB total) will also work well.

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XP · 11-21-2001, 05:19 PM

AMD Athlon 900
512 Ram
30 (Actually 28) GB IDE Harddrive.
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Coke · 11-21-2001, 05:22 PM

The P3 800 does have a 133 mhz system bus

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awechen · 11-21-2001, 11:42 PM

SUN netxra T1

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Jinn · 11-22-2001, 10:04 AM

Thank you for all your replies. I can see many of you have very high traffic sites. I think for mine, 1GHz, 512Ram, 20GB HD would be enough for a while. Hope to see more people join in this discussion. Thanks everyone and have splendid Thanksgiving!

Jinn

Amputate Your Head · 11-22-2001, 10:06 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by onlyreal:
if you are newbie
try raqs

they can handle 200gb bandwith

Plus they're dirt cheap right now, because they're full of security holes and getting hacked all the time. Everyone's got 'em on sale trying to dump them.

oscer · 11-22-2001, 02:48 PM

I was pushing 16 megs through a PIII 866 with 512 megs ram

and was fine

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cyberpunk · 11-22-2001, 08:46 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by oscer:
I was pushing 16 megs through a PIII 866 with 512 megs ram

and was fine

16M is that per s or a typo

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11-21-2001, 02:24 PM	#1
Jinn Confirmed User Join Date: Nov 2001 Posts: 72	What's your dedicated server configuration? Hello, everyone: I never had any dedicated server before for a high traffic site. So I want to ask you experienced webmasters for some help. I am wondering what configuration would be good enough for, say, 200GB /month transfer? I would also like to know what kind of server you have (cpu speed, memory, hard drive, etc.) and what's your monthly bandwidth. And what OS are you using, FreeBSD, Linux, Windows? I am seriously considering a dedicated server. My site isn't reach 200GB transfer yet, but it's getting close. And my PHP programming needs more functionality and freedom on software installation. So any help will be very appreciated. Thank you everyone, Jinn

11-21-2001, 02:30 PM	#2
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11-21-2001, 02:35 PM	#3
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11-21-2001, 03:10 PM	#5
heymatty Confirmed User Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Scottsdale :) Posts: 2,188	I have redhat7 on mine, doing about 400 gigs per month. I have 512 ram but you can probably get away with less for 200 gigs. But the main difference between my current server and the previous one is the quality of the apache installation. If your apache build is not up to par the whole thing will be very unstable. matty http://wildvoyeur.com/webmasters.htm [This message has been edited by heymatty (edited 11-21-2001).]

11-21-2001, 03:16 PM	#6
onlyreal Confirmed User Join Date: Jun 2001 Posts: 853	if you are newbie try raqs they can handle 200gb bandwith

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FreeOnes Confirmed User Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: The Netherlands Posts: 3,400	I have 4 dual 1 Ghz P3 systems, each with 1 Gb RAM, 36 Gb SCSI disk. One of them is doing 5000 Gb per month "easily". Of course they are all running on FreeBSD.

11-21-2001, 03:45 PM	#8
oscer Confirmed User Industry Role: Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Baltimore Posts: 2,834	I use Freebsd For my OS with a Custom Configured Kernal and Apache which is Custom Configured Our Servers are PIII 866 with 512 megs ram normally Now we are starting to use 1 gig ram as fars as slicing the hard drive /usr 2 gig /var 2 gig /Swap 1 gig / 200 meg /logs 5 gig Secound Drive /www 18 gig THis is a Normal configuration We useually use supermicro servers but when we need them fast with the same quality we use servers from these guys http://www.amnet-comp.com Great guys & Service ------------------ Stynk Adult Freehost FuckHost Freehosting Quik host Quality Affordable hosting ICQ 138476871

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11-21-2001, 04:39 PM	#11
Coke Confirmed User Join Date: Feb 2001 Posts: 108	Most of these configurations are a little too high for 200GB What I'd recommend is something of that sort: P3 800 512MB SDRAM 20GB HD We mainly use a customised version of Redhat Linux 7.1 which has been rock-stable and fast for months. Using such a configuration you can push quite a lot more than 200GB so you've room to grow which is very important. Hit me up on ICQ 17021242 if you have any questions, please. Thanks, Gernot ------------------ Current Special: TGP POSTER SPECIAL. Contact me for more information: 17021242 [email protected]

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11-22-2001, 10:04 AM	#16
Jinn Confirmed User Join Date: Nov 2001 Posts: 72	Thank you for all your replies. I can see many of you have very high traffic sites. I think for mine, 1GHz, 512Ram, 20GB HD would be enough for a while. Hope to see more people join in this discussion. Thanks everyone and have splendid Thanksgiving! Jinn

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