I am currently on virtual hosting, and thinking of upgrading to a dedicated box, and am looking at getting this package :

1x 750MHz (Intel) Processor
1x 18GB SCSI HD
512MB RAM

I am pushing about 450 gigs per month, and am just wondering if this server config would be powerful enough for serving mainly PICTURES.

There won't be much scripts running on this box, maybe a few non server intensive scripts, so could anyone give me some advice?

Im no expert but just from the little i know im assuming that with that much traffic you should most likely be looking for something with at least 1.2+ghz if not more, and 512MB of ram should do , i would get 1GB of ram and if you need a larger drive you could always go with a WD.

I'm currently pushing 631GB of transfer on a P3 1Ghz, 512MB RAM 40GB IDE HD and server loads range from 0.50-1.0. And just for images that server should be fine.

Yes that machine is more then enough to push 450gb/month.

Originally posted by zerphyte
Yes that machine is more then enough to push 450gb/month.

AGREE;)

larger drive you could always go with a WD
Might be personal preference, but in my experience Seagate Cheetah 10k and Quantum Atlas 10K II/III drives blow away a WD. And a SCSI drive is definitely what you want, not an IDE drive (if you can afford it.)

an IDE drive is fine for 450gb a month. 450gb isn't exactly that much bandwidth to push.

That spec is fine :)

Thx for the advice, the server also comes with with a burstable pipe to 10mbps, will it be able to handle the load, if I had a huge spike in traffic?

This is mainly for my porn sites, and traffic could be quite irratic.

If you are going to be going up and down on the traffic, go with an actual transfer billing plan, instead of 95th/mbps plan. This will save you from having to pay for the premium from your spikes.

10mbps should be enough, however, it isn't the best. You should look for a provider that can burst higher. (maybe 100Mb/s)

Peter

Think about future expanding. Decide on how many viewers of your site you are going to have in the future and if you are going to run some other media.

Then i suggest you go for a DUAL machine to make sure your on top of things instead of messing around with a move at a later time.. of course if your site is making you enough money etc.

Kind regards
Phillip

Originally posted by cyberzen

This is mainly for my porn sites......

Originally posted by ckpeter
If you are going to be going up and down on the traffic.....

I guess you could call that porno traffic.

No dynamic content (ASP/PHP/CFM/etc), just pictures?

750MHz should be fine and since O/S, etc would use maybe 2GB, if 16GB is enough for your "pictures", that you're ok in that dept. too. 512MB RAM should be enough for static content I'd say.

its enough but i'd rather be on safe side with little more processor power maybe a 1.2ghz

Yes that machine is fully capable of handling that load and more.

I have used a Cyrix 266 machine as a local file server on a network that could easily push well over 100GB per day. With no dynamic content/CPU intensive stuff, your bottleneck wont be the CPU or RAM, but the harddrive.