Best configuration for dedicated server?

Re:Best configuration for dedicated server? by edu on Saturday December 08, 2007 @02:19PM (#87314)

I will go for XEN, virtualization is always good and nowadays the performance lost is unappreciable, on the other side you gain a machine you can copy and move. If you have your full machine image backuped and you screw something on it, you only need to go the real shell and restore it. Also, you can have a develpment vm and a production vm, well you know better what you need.

On the hardware side setup a RAID either hardware or software, but with a hardware RAID you better pray for it to not crash. I've seem some nasty issues with raid controllers. Also, get plenty of memory and dual/quad core processor.

For the OS, I will go for Debian or Ubuntu Server if you want some kind of support (yes, I know that there are people servicing Debian support, but they are less blamable!)

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Re:Best configuration for dedicated server? by marketer on Saturday December 08, 2007 @02:50PM (#87319)

I tend to think of virtualization as a sandboxing method instead of a deployment method. I'd only use virtualization if the apps I'm running may compromise the security or stability of the host machine. Otherwise, most web frameworks have some kind of deployment method, as well as support for different environments (production/test), and that's generally good enough.

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