How much server to buy?
We are putting in a request for a web server that will run ubuntu. We are only using it as a web server. The IT dept. talked with Dell and gave them our sites' statistics and they suggested a $3,000 server. It sounded like it was over kill for what we would be using it for. I wanted to run this by you to see what you think and see what we should be looking for in a server.
Our 5 sites total to about:
- 1,100 MB Bandwidth roughly per week
- 1.4 GB of disk space
- 19,000 page views per week
- 6,100 visitors per week
- 68,000 hits per week
Here are a few specs from the server Dell suggested:
- 2- Dual Core 1.8Ghz AMD Opteron 2210 Processors
- 4GB of RAM
- 2- 250GB Hard Drives
- 3yr Standard Support
This sounds like overkill to me. Do we really need this much? What should we be looking for?
Thanks a lot!
akopayan posted this at 09:18 — 3rd September 2007.
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I think that you need find a company providing rich choice.
I suggest you have a look at a2hosting.com. They do run dedicated servers solutions, vps, and semi dedicated solutions as well. So I hope it would be easy to find deal on thir web site.
Kufr posted this at 08:09 — 5th September 2007.
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I personally wouldn't mind investing $3,000 on a server for those 5 sites, given that these sites will grow in traffic and other usages. Perhaps CentOS might be a preferred choice of operating system over Ubuntu.
James posted this at 08:58 — 5th September 2007.
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No, I think you'd be fine with a medium range server.
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