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Old 08-05-2006, 01:51   #5 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by paulanthony
I didn't really want to get into specifics, but what I can tell you is that I estimate to be transferring 4.8 GB roughly a day in terms of traffic. The machine would also be pulling live data from a Unix based machine on an hourly basis (custom program to do this). There also would be database work involved. Are we talking 2GB of RAM or more?
Yeah, more than 2Gb of RAM would be a good idea for that server. If you're going to be running the webserver and database off the same box, RAM is more important than pure processor speed.
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