The site have 20000 unique ip a day. And normally have 500-800 people online. It is mainly running a forum.

Any idea about this? Will P4 be enough or dual xeon?

Any deal to recommend ?

If you have some experience about this please share it with me
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you could get away with 1 gig DDR, and a P4, but would go with at least P4 with Hyper Thread.

What are your current server specs, load, and does it have a lot of hd access? Could Build more off what you already have.



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I'd definetly go for a Dual Xeon. RAM is also very important, with that man concurrent users online, I'd go for at least 2GB.

you could get away with 1 gig DDR, and a P4, but would go with at least P4 with Hyper Thread.

What are your current server specs, load, and does it have a lot of hd access? Could Build more off what you already have.

currently i'm on a shared hosting. I'm sponsored by ultraunix.net( Great Service! ) now, they almost give me the whole server.( Dual xeon, 2GB DDR, SCSI.....)
The load now is not high(approximately %40), since it is a dual xeon server. .

You may need 2 servers for this job. Perhaps a dual xeon with 2 GB RAM and SCSI drives for the MySQL serving and then a P4 2.4+ with 1 GB RAM for the web serving. Otherwise you may able to fit all this on a single dual xeon. Try looking at www.theplanet.com They have some good total control servers that look best for you...

I Agree with Raine, you should get 2 servers.

Getting a pair of server is a good idea. You can backup your stuff across your own servers when you have that.

how do you setup one server for SQL and another for normal use?
do you just give a CP option for SQL only and deny SQL on the other?
how do you link a script one to another? using IP?

Instead of setting the MySQL server to "localhost" or "127.0.0.1" you would set it to the IP of the remote MySQL server. Then the queries would be sent between the 2 servers and served via the web server.