From: Scott Marlowe <scott.marlowe@gmail.com>
To: Pascal Cohen <pcohen@wimba.com>
Cc: pgsql-performance <pgsql-performance@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: Hardware question for a DB server
Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2008 13:43:33 -0600
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On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 1:24 PM, Pascal Cohen <pcohen@wimba.com> wrote:
> I agree with what you are saying. We are using Java with a pool of
> connections to access the DB. Today our database is really small
> compared to the RAM but it may evolve and even will probably grow (hope
> so which would be a good situation).
>
Keep in mind that differential cost between a mediocre and a good RAID
controller is often only a few hundred dollars. If that means you can
scale to 10 or 100 times as many users, it's an investment worth
making up front rather than later on.
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