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01-24-2014, 09:51 PM #1Newbie
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possible upgrade? need opinions
Hey all Currently I am running a web server with these settings and I was curious if its worth doing the upgrade I would be losing on some CPU speed BUT I would gain 2x more ram would it worth the trade off of losing a little bit of CPU speed? I am thinking of the future and not having to upgrade as quickly
Also my site relies more so on updating/editing a MySQL database
Thanks!
Current Specs:
CPU: Intel E3-1230V2Core(s)4 Speed: 3.3GHz
RAM: 8GB
I am possible to grade to these settings
Upgrade Specs:
Intel® Quad-Core 2 x E5506 2.13GHz
RAM 24GB DDR3
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01-24-2014, 09:53 PM #2Web Hosting Master
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Why not just contact your current provider and see whether they allow you to upgrade the 8GB RAM in the future?
MySQL would probably benefit from the better CPU.█ Clouveo - SSD/NVMe Cloud VPS & Web Hosting
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01-24-2014, 10:16 PM #3Junior Guru Wannabe
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I think it is difficult to say whether that is a worth "upgrading" it really depends on your current system resource usage.
I think if you are utilising your 8GB of RAM and you need to increase then as Criot said speak to your provider see if they can upgrade this. I think upgrading for the sake of upgrading is a little pointless and I think it is a bit of a side step rather than an upgrade.
Is your system bottlenecking anywhere at the minute if so where and if not where do you predict you will need to invest in the near future?
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01-24-2014, 10:17 PM #4Newbie
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01-24-2014, 10:19 PM #5The Linux Specialist
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Not just ram but you need to consider the IO too especially since you will do update in mysql constantly.
Specially 4 U
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01-24-2014, 10:21 PM #6Newbie
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Currently I have ~13,610,488 rows from 41 tables and it is increasing daily
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01-24-2014, 10:23 PM #7Web Hosting Master
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01-24-2014, 10:28 PM #8Junior Guru Wannabe
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You didn't answer where your system is bottlenecking. My guess is as @net said you are going to be looking at Disk IO performance issues at some point. I'd be interested to see what your iostat looks like.
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01-24-2014, 11:59 PM #9Web Hosting Master
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Just so you know, you're not losing just "little bit" CPU speed. The dual E5506 is about 60% slower than the E3 by passmark. Not the best kind of benchmark for real life scenario, but you can somehow get the idea how much behind that 2009 CPU is.
Find a way to keep your CPU's horsepower, and get more ram and I/O.
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01-25-2014, 09:41 AM #10Junior Guru Wannabe
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Hello
Maybe you can give us some graphes of CPU usage from Munin or something like this ? The same for IO usage / memory usage ?
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01-26-2014, 10:31 PM #11Web Hosting Evangelist
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If your website is SQL intensive, more RAM + SSD for your DB may solve your problem. Also you may consider to move your DB on a separate server.
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01-28-2014, 06:05 PM #12Web Hosting Master
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Heavy database transactions? Consider improving IO before CPU and memory. Get a solid state in there -- Crucial M500s have worked great for us.
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