Question for the gurus: I've got a web server putting out just 10K pages and about 25MB a day. Not much, but it's growing quickly and does get bogged down at certain times during the day (seems about half is served between 2:30 and 4:00 PM).
Which is the better upgrade, more RAM or going to SCSI? Currently, I'm running a P150 with 96MB RAM on a fast IDE drive (7200 RPM). I'm working on upgrading the server to slink with Apache-SSL. We only have about 250MB of web pages, and I think I might be better off bumping RAM to something like 512MB rather than moving to SCSI (which would cost about the same). While both would be nice, I'm on a limited budget. The additional RAM, it would seem, would almost eliminate the need for heavy disk access (even with the mysql and htdig databases I run on it). Additionally, if I wait, I could move to SCSI with RAID rather than the basic ADAPTEC 2940UW that we are looking at. Any suggestions appreciated. Thanks, Jeff Hill -- ********* HR On-Line: The Network for Workplace Issues ******** ** Ph:416-604-7251 -- Fax:416-604-4708 ** http://www.hronline.com **