On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 1:24 PM, Pascal Cohen <pcohen(at)wimba(dot)com> wrote:
> I agree with what you are saying. We are using Java with a pool of
> connections to access the DB. Today our database is really small
> compared to the RAM but it may evolve and even will probably grow (hope
> so which would be a good situation).
>
Keep in mind that differential cost between a mediocre and a good RAID
controller is often only a few hundred dollars. If that means you can
scale to 10 or 100 times as many users, it's an investment worth
making up front rather than later on.