Hello, all.

We buy lots of servers for internet service.
But, as you know the cost is higher and higher,
so I would like to find other good solution or equipment to decrease the number of servers.

Is there any good solutions or equipments recommendable that I can decrease the number of servers?

What I only thought is ethernet bonding.


Thanks for your help in advance.

I think this question is too general and lacking in specifics to be able to say much:

• Obviously, you should consider optimising the performance of what you've got - you should be able to guess why I haven't gone on to say exactly how to do that
• If you have any idea of what the bottlenecks are, then eliminating the bottlenecks are makes sense. there is relly not much point in paying more to get a faster disk subsystem if your problem is networking

The more obvious thing of trying to get the most MIPS for your money is probably nice, but, as that might not be your problem, who knows whether it helps much?

Depending on the workload using virtual machines can be used.

Using an embedded version of Linux, an ARM chip, and a SSD can decrease the cost, decrease electricity consumption, and provide high performance. IMHO, it is all about efficiency.

Setting up a server to also have the lowest latency possible is better than high throughput. Although, high throughput does compensate for TCP/IP overhead when multiple connections are needed. Sure ethernet bonding can be used, but the bus can only transfer one thing at a time. Finding and buying a 10 gigabit NIC that fits in a PCIe or PCI-X slot and it is controller based is better than ethernet bonding.

Rewriting PHP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Apache to run on stream processors like nVidia GeForce8 or higher can provide very, very high performance.

I think buying multiple low performance servers is cheaper than buying one big high performance server.


MIPS is the worst thing that relates to performance. Linux calls this bogomips. Bogo means to be absurd, insane, ridiculous straight from urbandictionary.com.