[Techtalk] Server Deployment

[Jason Guidry]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Malcolm Tredinnick" <malcolm at commsecure.com.au>
Sent: Saturday, June 01, 2002 12:09 AM

I've heard good things about pogo linux www.pogolinux.com  they have dual
athlon boxen for quite reasonable prices.

> We have not found any real problems using IDE drives versus their SCSI
> counterparts and they are much cheaper and easier to replace when
> something goes wrong (and hard drives *do* fail). You just have to
> remember that two hard drives on the same IDE cable are not going to be
> accessible at the same time -- they have to serialise the data transfer
> on the cable which is a real performance hit. So we use the Promise IDE

There are numbers that say there is virtually no difference between SCSI and
IDE for data transfer, especially when the disks are arranged in a Raid
stripe (I'm guessing Raid 5 for this purpose).  I know people, however, who
get red in the face when it comes to hardware vs. software raid, ESPECIALLY
under linux

I was going to vote for 2 machines just for security.  you can but the HTTP
box behind a transparent bridging firewall, and then the mysql box behind
yet another FW.  if you have anything important/sensitive in the DB, this
could be a way to go.  heavily incluenced by this site.

http://www.trumpetpower.com/Papers/Network_Design

I'd love to hear thought both pro and con on this.