Web Hosting Talk : Web Hosting Main Forums : Hosting Security and Technology : extra gig of ram

[HD Fanatic]

Server is running fine on 2GB memory on Xeon 3060 running on Apache 1.3, php 4.4.6 and mysql 4.1.21

It's only used to host a forum with about 80 members online and a multimedia download section.

Would it be a big difference if I upgrade to 3GB? Like will it support more downloads at once without boggind down the server? Which stuff should I tweak in apache and mysql config to make use of extra gig of ram? Thanks in advance.

[CArmstrong]

Well what seems to be the current bottleneck? Is your IOWait high? Is your pagefile usage more than it should be? Post some stats and we can recommend the best upgrade.

[HD Fanatic]

There isn't a bottleneck, I just got offered a free memory upgrade.

[domainworldaccess]

Where ram is concerned, more is almost always better - If it's really free I would suggest taking it.

[HW-David]

Free RAM is always good, that way you have plenty of room to expand. If you don't have any problems right now, you might see faster response from the server right now, but again, if your memory usage is currently low, you won't see too much of an improvement right now.

What DC are you with that they offer you free RAM? They sound good

[HD Fanatic]

Of course I took the free ram for being a loyal customer.

The provider is softlayer my current server and price is almost as good as their current special.