How many accounts you hosting on your server?

[bradyb]

Currently I have about 100 sites on my server:

Server Load 0.24 (4 cpus)
Memory Used 26.6 %
Swap Used 0.00 %
Disk /dev/sda6 (/tmp) 2 %
Disk /dev/sda7 (/home) 22 %
Disk /dev/sda1 (/) 75 %
Disk /dev/sda2 (/usr) 39 %
Disk /dev/sda3 (/var) 76 %

What do you guys think about this setup/specs?

Processor #1 Vendor: GenuineIntel
Processor #1 Name: Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 2.80GHz
Processor #1 speed: 2801.727 MHz
Processor #1 cache size: 1024 KB

Processor #2 Vendor: GenuineIntel
Processor #2 Name: Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 2.80GHz
Processor #2 speed: 2801.727 MHz
Processor #2 cache size: 1024 KB

Processor #3 Vendor: GenuineIntel
Processor #3 Name: Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 2.80GHz
Processor #3 speed: 2801.727 MHz
Processor #3 cache size: 1024 KB

Processor #4 Vendor: GenuineIntel
Processor #4 Name: Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 2.80GHz
Processor #4 speed: 2801.727 MHz
Processor #4 cache size: 1024 KB

Memory: 2073156k/2096896k available (2058k kernel code, 22500k reserved, 772k data, 232k init, 1179392k highmem)

total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 2074708 1811984 262724 0 441796 817384
-/+ buffers/cache: 552804 1521904
Swap: 4200956 0 4200956
Total: 6275664 1811984 4463680

Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1 1012M 714M 247M 75% /
none 1014M 0 1014M 0% /dev/shm
/dev/sda7 100G 21G 75G 22% /home
/dev/sda6 4.0G 41M 3.7G 2% /tmp
/dev/sda2 9.9G 3.6G 5.8G 39% /usr
/dev/sda3 9.9G 7.1G 2.3G 76% /var

 

[ujr]

MACscr and brady, it all really depends on what you are hosting. If you host busy sites or large mysql dbs, then a bit more cpu and especially memory are always welcome! ... And correctly, MAC pointed out that the disk subsystem should also be adequately configured with decent drives to keep up with the tasks.

Most people today are using SATA, with older machines using IDE. SATA2 and the more expensive and performant SCSI drives offer you generally faster access times, seek times and transfer rates. Getting more performance out of SATA or SCSI is usually easy enough, just by using striped disk arrays or RAID. As we know, that does come at considerable cost. Nevertheless, it allows data to be written accross multiple drives, meaning faster access times and read times since you are sharing the reading and writing over multiple channels and disks.

For a meer 100 accounts using little system resources, a dual xeon is more than comfortable.

As with everything in life, you need to use what suits you, with a little room for growth.

(In other words, you wouldn't buy a ferrari just to drive in a 25mph zone. If you carry lots of passengers, then maybe a truck or a bus is what you need).

 

[JamesSmith]

I know this is an a bit dated, but i was intrigued by the conversation. Now that we starting to get into Quad cores and even Dual Quad Cores and i know we can add plenty of ram, but isnt the hard drive speeds going to really start to come into play with these these monsters? Especially with everyone running a SQL based site. What are your thoughts?

From our point of view disk IO has always been the bottleneck.

Obviously using SCSI disks or the high end SATA disks will provide increased benefit, but mass storage speeds have moved more slowly than other parts of a system.