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Originally Posted by zQUEz
Two words .... "it depends".
What applications are you setting up?
How large is the DB(s) going to be?
Will there be other files size requirements?
How much space will the applications need?
Will it need to be scalable? That is, do you see a need to add more servers at a later stage for growth?
Will you need shared storage options available to you?
Are your filesystem requirements (application type) for speed or for size or both?
What is you anticipated number of users hitting the application during peak periods and how does that translate into iops on the database? (how many read/write operations a second)
Do you have an existing setup that you can get some baseline figures from?
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The first applications I can think of will be the basic user accounts and E-mail server...
I would not need to add more servers at a later stage for growth.
Are your filesystem requirements (application type) for speed or for size or both?
Both.
It will not have very heavy load.
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lets say that I have 1 server with linux installed and lots of user accounts (20-25 accounts that use X , not always 20-25 at same time.. normally 10 accounts at same time ), E-mail server...etc.
And one separate server for the data from the user accounts, and storage of the E-mail data...,
Actually all the necessary applications will be installed on the 1st server...and the second will be storage/backend with all the application files..
So if something happens to the application server, the data will be safe in the storage server.
Backend/Storage Server Help...
