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Im considering going dedicated and am wondering if like a PIII 800Mhz with 256MB RAM and SCSI disk on linux w/ apache could handle ~6 to 8 Mbps TGP gallery traffic. I really am clueless and I'm just trying to price it out. No scripts running or anything, JUST servering galleries.

Thanks for all your help.

HQ

Yes. In its sleep -- unless you get really shitty hardware.

It should, one of my server has this config (p3 866, 256mb ram but a cheap ide drive) and it handle loads pretty easy.. I use freebsd though...

for that kind of bw, if you are not doing anything else on the box, it will be more than fine.

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Hiya

Those server specs are more than adequate. I'd really recommend having 512mb of ram though because that truly will help your performance.

Something to consider... I love SCSI drives like the next guy but for the same money you might want to have two 7200rpm IDE drives running a software raid for redundancy. I don't know that you'll notice much difference in performance between the two options, but at least with the latter for the same money you are getting some fault tolerance.

Good luck! If you want more advice feel free to call or ICQ me and pick my brain - regardless of who you're hosting with.

Cheers

Brad

I think you can do better than 256MB RAM. This is realy the lower end for adult d-servers.

with you doing 6-8 mbs I would suggest double the ram.
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Just as an FYI, when you are serving high volume static content, the RAM is used mainly as disk cache. If you have more RAM than content, the disk will almost never be used.. this is ideal. If you have more content than RAM, then the disk will be used to access the less popular content.

If you have shitloads of content, and lots of it is popular/hot all at once, and you only have a little RAM, you're fucked. You will be constantly swapping, and that will make it look like the server is too slow.

If you start seeing server load, or vmstat reports high numbers for disk activity, upgrade the ram.

Thanks everyone. The 256MB should be ok, since I only have about 100MB of content.

HQ

High Quality -

The amount of content you have has nothing to do with how much ram you need. First of all memory is dirt cheap, I wouldn't put a machine together without 1GB. The more ram you have the more apache session you can have without having to swap to the drive :) Secondly go with a mirror or a raid drive so you don't have to worry about a drive crapping out on you, again drives are really cheap compared with having to have a new drive loaded, and then uploading all your 100GB of content and loosing 2 to 3 days worth of sales !!!



Tim
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Man... like we're all saying! At least 512mb of RAM - Apache is going to use it all for the cache. Plus, it looked like you were confused.. The fact that you have 100 megabytes of content does not go into your 256 meg cache like you think it does.

Brad