I have found that even the larger hosting companies such as Rackspace
are pretty clueless when trying to configure even a mid size database
server. They gave us a 4 drive raid 5 even after being explicitly
asked for a RAID 10. They also put the controller in write through
cache mode. Pretty bad config - the server blew chunks, our single
drive ATA cheapo box ran significantly faster.
I would definatley suggest looking at co-lo.
Alex Turner
netEconomist
On 4/25/05, Chris Kratz <chris.kratz@vistashare.com> wrote:
> It seems the consensus on this list is that when running postgres, Opterons
> outperform Xeons by a significant margin not to mention the CS storms
> postgres seems to cause on Xeons. We are looking for a hosting service for a
> postgresql based application. Unfortunately, it seems most services
> standardize on Dell and by extension Xeon hardware. Do anyone have
> recommendations for hosting services that would be able to provide Opteron
> based hardware and have decent service? Or are we stuck with Xeons?
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> Chris Kratz
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