RE: [PHP] Server limits/recommendations

the words "shared NT server" make a chill run up my spine. apache will beat any MS webserver hands down, and overall, linux is more stable (and usually a lot faster and easier to configure) than NT. MS makes great user-interfaces and office software, *not* great server software... i'd go with linux for such a popular website that can see huge spikes in bandwith. > -----Original Message----- > From: Ian Evans [mailto:ianevans@friedspamdigitalhit.com] > Sent: Friday, May 18, 2001 4:52 PM > To: php-general@lists.php.net > Subject: [PHP] Server limits/recommendations > > > I'd really like to move our site to a dedicated server, but I'm not > ready to lay down the monthly cash for a multi-SCSI drived 1gig ram > beast -- yet. > > Right now we're hosted by the oxymoronically named HostPro. We're on a > shared NT server with a SQL Server ODBC connection and we use PHP to do > a lot of the stuff on the site. > > There's stuff that just doesn't work. For example, I have better odds > rolling the dice than hoping that my databse insert form for our > entertainment news will work. Sometimes it does, sometimes it doesn't > and "Support" (they had to name it something I guess) has never been > able to figure out why. > > Covering the world of entertainment, we can average 10,000 pageviews a > day but will swing up to 200,000+ on days like the Oscars. We've seen > our bandwidth usage swing from 80meg a day to 3gig. > > I'd just like to get into an entry-level dedicated linux server, running > apache, PHP and MySQL. I've looked at Rackspace as other contacts have > recommended them and their entry level system consists of: > > 750 Mhz Processor > 256MB RAM > 20GB EIDE Drive > 10GB/Month Burstable Bandwidth > > I'm looking for input on that configuration. The way I see it, if we're > surviving on a shared server now, we'll still be able to stretch our > feet and grow a bit (as well as being able to do things that we can't in > our shared NT server) before we need to add memory and go to SCSI, etc. > > Do you concur? > > Thanks! > -- > Ian Evans > Digital Hit Entertainment - News and Information > http://www.digitalhit.com > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net >