We are a decent size forum. We run 300-500 users online 90% of the time with a traffic spike a few days a month of up to 6000 users. We handle the load pretty well up until around 4000 users, where we see a few timeouts but it's generally fairly tolerable.
We are currently running on a Intel Core2 Duo CPU E7200 @ 2.53GHz, CentOS 32 bit, 4gb ram.
Anyway, our host is offering us a free upgrade of either an additional 4gb ram (bringing the total to 8gb) or a Quad Core Q6600 @ 2.40GHz.
Need opinions on which one of these upgrades will give us the biggest performance boost during those peak times we are getting slammed.
10-28-2008, 09:10 PM
opinions on forum server upgrade
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