Communities: Server spec.?
I'm wondering... My poor old server is totally overwhelemed by the communities it hosts:
I wouldn't dare advertising or even adding any external link to y-f/militate.com because then I instantaneously get close to 200 users online,
Clicdev.com is another problem: it's a free board host. It sometimes has as many as 2,000 users connected simultaneously. Let's generally consider 1,000 users...
All this runs on a P4 Celeron 1.7 GHz with 1 GB memory and an IDE HD!
Yup, that's me. I'm cheap.
What would you recommend I move these two guys to?
- Dual Xeon or P4 3 GHz with hyperthreading?
- How much memory? Would 2 GB be sufficient?
- Can I reasonably use IDE drives?
Thanks,
-Chris.
