| From: | "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> |
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| To: | Phoenix Kiula <phoenix(dot)kiula(at)gmail(dot)com> |
| Cc: | PG-General Mailing List <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Question about hosting and server grade |
| Date: | 2009-03-25 19:00:43 |
| Message-ID: | 1238007643.25534.18.camel@jd-laptop.pragmaticzealot.org |
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On Wed, 2009-03-25 at 23:12 +0530, Phoenix Kiula wrote:
> Hi. I have a questionf or people who run high traffic websites.
>
> My question: What's the high end recommendation? Is the following
> config of 4 x quadcore Dunnington Intels with 4 disks on RAID 10 be
> good enough for the above sites? Can I run a database on this config
> of servers for my kind of traffic, or do I need a separate one for PG?
> I suppose the traffic will grow large quite quickly so the 300GB may
> be low, but that we can add as we go along.
>
A 4 Disk RAID 10 will give you ~ 100MBs random write per second, max.
What type of IO are you using now? (This is also assumes an actual
decent RAID controller).
Joshua D. Drake
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