[consulting] Dedicated/Colocated Servers?

[Mariano Barcia]

I like this approach, I am about to decide on a hosting provider (in the
west coast) but I have a question: if I need to have the database residing
in another separate box for security and performance reasons: how do they
deal with that? IMO, it is a pretty common configuration (web server + DB).
Do they have special MySQL farm servers or something? Or I just need to shop
for 2 VPS?

Thanks,
--mariano

-----Original Message-----
From: consulting-bounces at drupal.org [mailto:consulting-bounces at drupal.org]
On Behalf Of Bèr Kessels
Sent: Jueves, 11 de Enero de 2007 06:35 a.m.
To: A list for Drupal consultants and Drupal service/hosting providers
Subject: Re: [consulting] Dedicated/Colocated Servers?

Hi

Op woensdag 10 januari 2007 15:48, schreef Mark Shropshire:
> I am using VPS servers with powervps.com. Have been with them about a  
> year. They can bring up a new vps in minutes. When there have been  
> hardware issues on the node or the raid array, they have moved my vps  
> to another node. Downtime is very minimal.. just a minute or so when  
> the nodes switch addresses.

I sometimes use amenworld.com. My client starts off with a (low budget) 
(debian) VPS. Once the site becomes the success they beleived it would, 
amenworld offers the posibility to scale into a physical server, without 
having to re-do the complete server set-up.

This is a great option if you want to cut down on the risks (I.e. having two

dell servers in a rack serving 200 pagevisits a day... )

Bèr

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