[ewg] root fs full on hosting server

[Jeff Becker]

Hi all

Johann George wrote:
> Tziporet,
>
> I have been talking to our hosting provider this past week
> about upgrading our server.  We need to decide on the
> configuration.
>
> Currently, we pay $199 for the following configuration:
>
>     * Dual 3.4 GHz Pentium D
>     * 1 GB RAM
>     * 160 GB hard drive
>     * 100 GB/month bandwidth
>     * 20 GB backup space
>
> Below are some of their pre-packaged plans.  An alternate
> plan for $199/month:
>     
>     * Intel Core 2 DUO 2.2GHz
>     * 1 GB RAM
>     * hardware RAID1
>     * 500 GB disk (2 250 GB SATA II drives)
>     * 200 GB/month bandwidth
>     * 5 GB of backup space 
>
> For $239/month:
>
>     * quad 2.13 GHz Xeon
>     * 2 GB RAM
>     * hardware RAID1
>     * 500 GB disk (2 250 GB SATA II drives)
>     * 250 GB/month bandwidth
>     * 10 GB of backup space 
>
> For $399/month:
>
>     * dual Quad 2.3 GHz Xeon
>     * 4 GB RAM
>     * hardware RAID1
>     * 280 GB disk (2 140 GB SAS drives)
>     * dual 1G NICs
>     * redundant power supplies
>     * 300 GB/month bandwidth
>     * 20 GB of backup space 
>
> We can also customize any of these plans.  As an example,
> each extra GB of backup space costs $1/month and each extra
> GB of bandwidth costs roughly $0.50/month.
>
> My current thought is that the $239/month package would meet
> our needs.  We will need to upgrade it to at least 20GB of
> backup; or even more.  
I vote for 25 or even 30GB: 20GB is a little tight
> Also, we have been running Ubuntu
> 6.06 Dapper Drake with LTS.  The latest LTS version of
> Ubuntu recently came out, Hardy Heron 8.04, and it probably
> makes sense to start out with that. 
That gets my vote too: I've been running this on my laptop since it came 
out, and it runs well.
>  Note that we should
> also get a 10% discount on any of the above quoted prices.
>
> Comments?  As soon as we agree on the configuration, we can
> put it into place.
>   
Thanks.

-jeff
> Johann
>
> On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 03:41:55PM +0300, Tziporet Koren wrote:
>   
>> This remind me that we suppose to have server upgrade in the comming days
>>
>> Johann/Jeff - any update in this?
>>
>> Tziporet
>>