[BlueOnyx:12889] Re: Server hardware

[Gerald Waugh]

On 04/18/2013 04:21 PM, Michael Aronoff wrote:
> Gerald wrote:
>> An acquaintance  of mine is interested in a high power server.
>> two quad-core Xeon processors, 12GB RAM, two 2TB hard drives.
>> Is this kind of hardware compatible and beneficial for BlueOnyx.
>>
>> I felt like it may be overkill.
> I disagree. I run 4 servers. Each has Dual Xeon's and 16GB of RAM. 
> I run about 50 business sites with a total of about 400 users. We do full
> SPAM and AV scanning on the box and they run great.
>
> I can tell you in the past when we ran lower spec hardware it would work but
> not leave as much overhead for a SPAM burst or something. More and more
> customers are running database CMS systems like WordPress and Joomla so the
> speed and memory really help out there too. Nightly backup used to take
> FOREVER. Now they average 20-30 min to run a full CMUExport and ftp to a
> separate machine.
>
> I have them from Chris at Virtbiz and they have been great (knock on wood).
>
>
Thanks Chris, and Michael for the info, its just that in many cases the
software has to be written for multi core/cpu applications

Gerald