Background
I setup a co-located server last year and had DA installed on it. My plan was to move my existing sites currently on shared hosts to my new server but in the testing I did I was never satisfied with the performance, mainly MySQL performance. I tried various tweaks but the queries the forum software I am using always ends up creating temp tables to disk. It’s been a year and that server is just doing email for me and a couple of people right now. Kind of a waste really.
Today
I bought a beefier machine off ebay to replace my existing one. I know I went overboard and the machine is overkill for what I need but I wasn’t talking any chances. Any way I’m looking for some one that can help me with the server setup and DA setup, tweaks, hardening, etc to make sure I get everything running smoothly and securely. Even it someone could point me to guides on the best way to setup a server that would be great. I was planning on installing CentOS 64bit on it and setting up a raid 1 array for the os and apps and a raid 10 array for the database and user files. I'm not sure how well that will work with DA though? I’m even willing to pay a bit for someone to help me out. Here are the specs of the new machine:
Dell PowerEdge 2950
2 x Quad Core 2.66ghz E5430 processors
16GB DDR2 pc2 5300 ecc memory
2 x superfast 73gb 15k SAS drives part # MAX3073RC
4 x superfast 146gb 15k SAS drives part # MAX3147RC
Perc6i dual channel embedded Raid controller w/256mb of cache and battery back up
Dual redundant power supply
Dual gigabit Nics
Thanks,
Devin
I setup a co-located server last year and had DA installed on it. My plan was to move my existing sites currently on shared hosts to my new server but in the testing I did I was never satisfied with the performance, mainly MySQL performance. I tried various tweaks but the queries the forum software I am using always ends up creating temp tables to disk. It’s been a year and that server is just doing email for me and a couple of people right now. Kind of a waste really.
Today
I bought a beefier machine off ebay to replace my existing one. I know I went overboard and the machine is overkill for what I need but I wasn’t talking any chances. Any way I’m looking for some one that can help me with the server setup and DA setup, tweaks, hardening, etc to make sure I get everything running smoothly and securely. Even it someone could point me to guides on the best way to setup a server that would be great. I was planning on installing CentOS 64bit on it and setting up a raid 1 array for the os and apps and a raid 10 array for the database and user files. I'm not sure how well that will work with DA though? I’m even willing to pay a bit for someone to help me out. Here are the specs of the new machine:
Dell PowerEdge 2950
2 x Quad Core 2.66ghz E5430 processors
16GB DDR2 pc2 5300 ecc memory
2 x superfast 73gb 15k SAS drives part # MAX3073RC
4 x superfast 146gb 15k SAS drives part # MAX3147RC
Perc6i dual channel embedded Raid controller w/256mb of cache and battery back up
Dual redundant power supply
Dual gigabit Nics
Thanks,
Devin
