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VAR System Specs
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Well Chris had to cancel on me for lunch today. He did tell me though
that it was basically a done deal. All we need to do now is spec the box.
Apparently they've got a number of machines that they used at the Atlanta
Linux Showcase, which of course they can't sell now... :-)
Figure we will get a single processor 400-450Mhz P2, which will be
upgradeable to dual processors (SMP still isn't rock solid remember).
I suspect we could use:
256MB RAM (How memory intensive is mySQL or PosgreSQL? Should we ask for
512MB? The more memory, the more we can cache the DB's!)
1.5 GB for OS/tools/swap/system logs
.5 GB for web server logs
1 GB for "content" like the LDP & the SQL DB backend for it
4 GB for the ht://dig database (rule of thumb is 4x indexed content)
1 GB for message boards & database (we can probably use SWISH or Glimpse
for this which has much lower disk requirements for it's DB)
10 GB for RPM Repository Mirror http://rufus.w3.org/linux/RPM/
2 GB "play area" for compiling stuff, etc.
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20GB Disk (wow!)
Obviously if we don't do the RPM Repsotory mirror, we can reduce our disk
space requirements in half, so that would be the first thing we cut if VAR
can't give us that much.
And what about RAID? We will get daily incrementals and weekly fulls
thanks to NaviSite. Probably the best thing to do is ask for a spare disk
that we can restore data to in the event of a failure. Also, if we need
512MB of RAM, the lowest end server that supports that also comes with
RAID.
Anyways to give you an idea what we're talking about I checked out their
site:
A 1000 server, with 1 450Mhz processor, 256MB RAM, and 22GB via 5 4.5GB
disks (Seagate Cheetah's) is about $7,195 list
A 3000 server, with 1 450Mhz, 512MB RAM, and 45/36GB disk (straight/RAID5)
via Quantum Atlas III 9.1 GB disks is about $9,895 list
(both disk systems are ultra-wide)
It looks like to me that we ask for a 3000. If we get a 1000 we're
limited to 18GB of usable space (assuming one disk is a spare) and there's
no upgrade path to 512MB of RAM should we need it. If we end up getting a
1000, then we just don't do the RPM Repository which isn't critical, but
would be a *nice* feature, especially since there aren't any mirrors on
the west coast of the US.
Comments?? Am I asking for too much?
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