Can you give us some idea on the amount of data store maintained ? Say, number of records in the database, and approx. record size. Also, how much would a DB dump occupies ?
Hard disk are just so cheap these days, that you can just ignore RAID 5 / RAID 6 / RAID 50 at all and just mirror all your hard disks (RAID 1) plus hot spare. You may even consider move to SSD (solid state disks), which have a much longer life span (and faster access time) than any mechanical hard disks. Regards, Raymond. On Wed, 2009-11-18 at 10:05 -0500, George Woltman wrote: > On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 8:03 AM, Luke Welsh <luke.we...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 8:01 PM, Raymond Fung <raymo...@iohk.com> wrote: > >> If "reliability" is important, why not move to Linux !!! > > I'm sure Linux is great, but Scott's experience is with Windows-based servers. > It isn't practical for Scott to learn all the ins-and-outs of setting up and > administering/monitoring a Linux server just to save $1000 on software costs. > It would also require a not-insignificant amount of time to convert stored > procedures and PHP SQL statements to MYSql of Postgresql. I know > we have taken advantage of MS SQL extensions. > > > I believe that the main concern is hardware reliability, especially a > > good immunity to faulting disks. > > This is true. If the web site is down for a day, it isn't the end of the > world. > If we lose some or all of our LL or factoring data - that is horrible. > > So, high availability is nice but not crucial. Protection against data > loss -- priceless. > _______________________________________________ > Prime mailing list > Prime@hogranch.com > http://hogranch.com/mailman/listinfo/prime > _______________________________________________ Prime mailing list Prime@hogranch.com http://hogranch.com/mailman/listinfo/prime
