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hi,
Yeah i have asked on the ticket, just waiting for a reply - can take sometime depending on if they're busy. Just wanted to hear other ideas. SAS drives may work like someone suggested, or if i can't split the domains on to different drives in the server then i will probably just go for the hardware raid option. Another person mentioned ssd drives, just reading up on those now, but the storage size seems rather small.
TBh since i know nothing about server admin, i can't really know if what they suggest is the best option. They seemed to be unable to cure the server crashing once it had 300 max connections. I got another person to check on the server and he simply made some adjustments in the apache build and now it runs fine. He turned off some stuff that wasn't needed. He suggested i scrap apache altogether for a more efficient method like lighttpd or some other one, however i really need cpanel and whm or else i'd be stuck. So for now apache will be ok but if the site grows i guess i will have to learn to live without those and adopt lighttpd.
A long time ago - before i had this disc io issue, someone mentioned they had had the same problem and simply split his domains up and put them on different drives and cured his io issue. That's the reason i just asked here, maybe that is a common solution, because if i used raid, then if 1 drive breaks i will lose all the data for all 3 domains, however with spreading the domains on different drives i would only lose 1 domain, and maybe the os would still work if it was not the primary drive that failed. I was told discs under high load constantly are likely to fail at some point.
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