I've been researching RaQ servers and I've seen mixed reviews.

I run a bulletin board-UBB with about 1300 users, growing every day.

How are RaQ's on server load with perl/cgi scripts?

I'm looking at a RaQ 4 with 450 mhz and 128 mb of ram.

thanks

In my opinion, the RaQ would do just fine if you added more memory. I would go with at the very least 256MB of memory, more would be better.

Regards,

Mike

pgowder,

Have you went over to the Infopop site and incquired over there? I noticed that you are using UBB 6.0 and someone pointed me to the infopop site. And from what I can tell they recommend at least 256 ram and if not more for the new version that you are using.

From just reading briefly over there it appears that UBB 6.0 is even more resource intensive than the old version.

my opinion is raq's suck
get an intel rack

While I agree that RAQs are underpowered when compared to a less expensive P3 rackmount server, I don't think they are terrible. For a single site with moderate to heavy cgi usage it would be fine. Just put more memory in it. I'd just put 512 MB in it right away with how cheap ram is nowadays. :)

Never ever try and run UBB on a RAQ

Originally posted by DaveC#
Never ever try and run UBB on a RAQ

That was certainly true with the RAQ2 series, but not true for a RAQ3 or especially a RAQ4.

Using ModPerl instead of CGI Perl would also help immensely on the load.