[Sysadmin] there can be only one...or possibly two...

[Dean Mah]

On Wed, Jun 09, 2004 at 04:07:26PM -0700, Judah McAuley wrote:
> Looks to me like theforum has kicked it back into sysadmin court. I 
> don't even know who all is on sysadmin, but anyway, it looks like we 
> have 3 options to me right now:
> 
> 1) buy a beefy $100 a month server
> 
> 2) buy two smaller $49/$59 a month servers
> 
> 3) buy one smaller server, pay jeff a monthly weo hosting fee, and buy 
> another server when we move weo
> 
> I'd personally vote for 2 meself. I'll take redundency over big iron, 
> all in all. Especially since a 1.7 or 2.4 GHz celeron with 512 or 1 Gb 
> of RAM is not exactly a tiny machine. It means a bit more overhead for 
> admin stuff and a bit more engineering of lists and w.e.o., but I think 
> it will end up being a more stable system as well as giving us full 
> control over primary and secondary dns.
> 
> Two 2.4 GHz boxen with 1 GB of ram would be my prefered choice and 
> should hold us for quite awhile.

I'd vote for 2 or 3 favouring 3.

Dean