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Originally Posted by Superterrorizer
How can you tell him what he needs based on what he said? He didn't even mention the scripts he's running. It would be impossible for him to be any less descriptive in his post.
So I would really like to know how you can say "You need this and this" when he has essentially told you jack fucking shit. You just mention the processors, nothing about memory, drive type, drive capacity, operating system, web server software, etc, etc... Why does he need a dual xeon to serve the pages? Why a dual xeon to do his sql stuff How many qps is he doing? ? Do you know if he even uses a mysql driven script?
Some of you host vultures need to slow down and ask some fucking questions before you start shooting out your "advice".
p0rnus, my advice to you is ignore all the idiot sales reps _UNLESS_ they ask you some fucking questions. If they say "Yeah we can host your 100k tgp no problem, come sign up right now" you should fucking RUN.
Of course, they are not all idiots. There's a few of them who really know their shit and hopefully you will hook up with one of them. So far in this thread I haven't seen any of them.
If you are serious about hosting your site and not getting ripped off or having your traffic decimated then tread lightly. Like I said above, if they are just making offers without knowing anything about your site, ignore them. I'd even go so far as to tell them to shove their offer up their ass.
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Memory and hard drives are part of the managed area that the host would assess and not effect the price. I would say 2-3 gigs on the file server and 4 gigs on the Mysql server.
You can cut corners left and right but real businesses will lose out in the long run. What I mean is if this is a business I would protect it with the right set up, even if it is a little more then what's needed. Or you can go cheap and risk killing servers and being vulnerable to attacks.
I should mention that if this is just for fun then go ahead and squeeze it onto a cheap set up. I was just thinking it must of been allot of work to get up to 100k a day and that you would want to protect it correctly.