You have to buy a hardware server for a web application and a database server in 2024...
Is there a reason to go lower than current gen. 8-core, 64 GB RAM, and 1TB SSD?
Should be around $2k per server.
I'm not debating buying an on-premise server at this point because it's not my (bad) decision.
Is there a reason to go lower than current gen. 8-core, 64 GB RAM, and 1TB SSD?
Should be around $2k per server.
I'm not debating buying an on-premise server at this point because it's not my (bad) decision.
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Also consider multiple drives, separating the OS from the data
And I won't go below the limits you mentioned. For me, that's the lowest bound. Maybe get more RAM.
The budget is not set. I wanted to express that the specs posted above result in around $2k, which I think is absolutely doable for a business.
Should I go higher? Maybe 128 GB RAM? More Cores? What do you think has higher priority?
And I'm not really a devops guy, my experience is based on what I learned running a small company with only a handfull of people. 1/6
SSD(s) in a size and RAID configuration you expect/need. Extend later, if you need. Upgrades should be doable without huge problems if needed. 2/6
I just put that amount into my machines, whatever the mainboard is capable of. Databases will utilize as much as they could (hopefully). And "an application" consists nowadays often multiple containers.
Swapping should be a relict of the 90s. 😎 3/6
My dev machine is a Ryzen 9 with 16/32 cores and 128GB RAM. It handles my dev needs "good enough", running database, IDEs, the application etc.
A server should probably use a server CPU. 4/6