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But then your Nics hit your cpu quite hard. So it's trade off. The only real way is to go SCSI I think. I'm already running three IP Addresses on the box, and that increase the util quite a bit, and to add the traffic of the database hitting a SMB/shared drive would kill it.

Originally Posted by SamirDarji

I didn't think about the footer. Actually, all it would require is finding something that is on every page of your site, regardless of where, and place the counter in that template or php file.

SCSI will help out with that quite a bit. My brother swears by it and will never go IDE for any reason. His cpu utilization never goes above 5% from disk activities, and he messes with video production. That's a lot better than the 100% he hits on his backup IDE drives. He hates those things. I would never run a server on IDE that utilizes its processor even half way.

The other way to eliminate the CPU overhead is to have a separate file server linked by a dedicated gigabit ethernet to your main server. This way, the cpu in the separate file server takes all the pounding from the IDE controller, leaving your main server's cpu free to process the php for the site.