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[neye_eve]

Bob - database servers

One set of articles you may find interesting are those from anandtech, in which he describes the process of upgrading his site's servers a few months ago. He has a web server, a database server, and possibly one more - I forget. However, since then the Xeons seem to have really kicked into a higher gear, so I'm not sure how applicable this would all be today.

Similarly, if 4/22 brings with it the promised hammers, I'm not sure how applicable this would all be then, either.


You'll probably like the article, as it deals with the business aspects of the upgrade, not just the technicals. So, you'll read about his web hosts, I/O costs, reliability, the problems he had, physical space constraints, etc.

in chronological order:
http://www.anandtech.com/showdoc.html?i=1514&p=1 (june 2001)

http://www.anandtech.com/IT/showdoc.html?i=1604 (april 2002)

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