It may make sense to do this, you probably also want to look into running multiple instances on the host to maximise capacity.
On 21 April 2015 at 19:08, Tzahi jakubovitz <tza...@hotmail.com> wrote: > Today we can buy very performant servers at very reasonable price points. > > e.g. – the price of two dual socket servers with 512 GB memory is > comparable to a single quad socket server with 1024 GB (1 TB) memory. > (Assuming same number of cores and MHz on each CPU) > > My gut feeling is that a single quad server will give better performance > since balancing shards and indexes across servers is simpler – especially > if a query targets certain shards. > > Thanks for your opinion. > > Tzahi > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "elasticsearch" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to elasticsearch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/de40706d-972a-4349-98a2-ba55ee580177%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/de40706d-972a-4349-98a2-ba55ee580177%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "elasticsearch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to elasticsearch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/CAEYi1X9D0WZZ7KwkOz3g0MY%2BnN%2BZymBGER7yLzBD3eYWYmCy7A%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.