Camille Constans wrote:
I'm afraid that the 4 new 1U boxes will be used quickly.... As our 5 web servers are completely overloaded. And one squid, browne, is often at a load 20-30. Just an idea, for the web servers, as we use only cpu on this boxes, maybe we could buy some inexpensive dual-athlon instead of mono-P4.
Do others share this assessment? If so, we need to increase the visibility of our fund raising efforts, because we've now spent most of our original campaign's funds. Some money trickles in all the time, but it's been de-emphasized significantly.
I'd strongly prefer that we not wait for an emergency, and I hope that we can have an "annual campaign" again at the end of the year to raise a large block of money for 2005.
The total price of the new db server plus 4x1u mono-P4 machines was just over $20,000.
I bought more than recommended this time around because I am going to be out of town for 5 weeks. I do have someone here (Michael) who can setup more boxes while I'm gone, if absolutely needed, but obviously it'll be harder that way. If we need more 1u machines, dual athlons or whatever, we should make that move now probably.
--Jimbo