what hardware setup are you using with DA?

From old Durons through Dual Xeon's and soon Dual AMD64's. A decent Athlon will do you for a long time.

Keep in mind it was only a few years ago that avis had their website hosted on a p 200.
 
matthewventura said:
or a server farm?
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Yes, I know some of us divide the MySQL, mail, httpd, and DNS parts of DA to different servers. I personally am not though. :)
 
matthewventura said:
does anyone run load balancing appliances? or a server farm?
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Server Farm yes. Load Balancing appliances, no.
I meant is anyone using load balancing so that if 1 server goes down then the other takes over?
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Load Balancing is not necessarily the same as redundancy. See my posts in other threads about the problems with redundancy.

Jeff
 
We're currently putting it on:

P4 3.2 Ghz HT
2GB DDR ram
2x120GB SATA Raid 1
1U chassis

We are using SMP kernels in most cases, these machines are very very quick :)

Paul
 
what is an smp kernel?

care to post your links about redundancy here?

I'm trying to figure a way to setup DA to be used over a primary and secondary system, where as if the primary fails then the secondary will come up and the first primary now is demoted to the secondary.

The idea being that I am running a small scale hosting service and I don't want to be woken up in the middle of the night to fix a server failure...
 
SMP kernels are those that support multiple thread concurrency and/or multiple cpu's alse creating multiple threads. In other words, you need it in order to reap the full benefits of a hyperthreading or multi processor machine.
 
test DA box is celeron 2ghz 512 ram 40 gig hd

production server is AMD 2.4ghz 1024 DDR ram and 120gig hd
 
DirectAdmin itself is pretty zippy and shouldn't cause any significant performance reduction. Load 1000 sites on there and you may have problems. :D

(I should note that some customers have well over 1000 on their servers and seem to be doing fine. Each site isn't high-traffic though)

Mark
 
DirectAdmin Sales said:
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(I should note that some customers have well over 1000 on their servers and seem to be doing fine. Each site isn't high-traffic though)

Mark
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For some reason, I keep quoting you ;).

There was *some* (not going to say names) dutch provider that placed a large number of sites per server (higher than the 150~250 I want as max on our servers), who began having problems with keeping the load down and Apache stable, so I don't think DA is the problem in essence. More along the lines of other services not able to handle the amount of requests...
 
Our dedicated rental server fleet is very similar to your #1, except that we buy our 1U servers, already built, from an Intel Ceritified system builder.

We also have very good results.

But of course neither you nor I are addressing the issue of problems being caused by overloading; probably because it takes a bit of selling to overload these systems :) .

Jeff
 
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