Originally Posted by eirikkn

Hi,

I would like to have your input on what server setup I should choose for my website.

- I have 10.000+ high quality pictures. It will grow with 200-300 pictures a week.
- I have 100+ HD videos. 1-2 gig each and I will add 2-4 videos a week.
- My traffic will be mainly from Europe and USA.
- I need a backup setup.
- My plan is to have one server for the videos and one for the rest.
- it`s a website where you pay to become a member.
- Only from thehun.com and similar I can get 50 to a 100.000 visitors a day, but this is low quality traffic which I don`t need, but the servers must be able to handle the traffic. 99% of them just look at the first page and continue looking at the other links on thehun.
- I will probably have 500 - 1000 active members using the website every day, but I must have a system which can easily scale up to handle a lot more members.
- I would like to use dedicated servers.

I have heard about something called "a smart dedicated server" which is managed by a thin hypervisor layer which can simple scale up with RAM without a reboot so I get less downtime. Is this on the market now? I also hear a lot about cloud hosting, but I am not sure how this works.

I appreciate all replies.