New Virtualmin Server

Submitted by paulfromsurrey on Thu, 08/13/2015 - 23:13 Pro Licensee

Hello Sir,

I am thinking building new server for virtualmin

for 100 websites average traffic

  1. Motherboard: ASUS Z87-PRO ATX LGA1150 Z87 DDR3 3PCI-E16 4PCI-E1 2.CPU:Intel Pentium G3258 Anniversary Unlocked Dual Core 3.2GHZ Processor LGA1150 Haswell 3MB Cache Retail
  2. Memory: 16gb Ram 4.Harddrive: Black Digital 2x1Terabyte Mirror setup 3rd internal hard drive will be used as double backup

Please let me know

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Submitted by andreychek on Thu, 08/13/2015 - 23:45

Howdy -- well, we're unfortunately not really able to offer whether that hardware would handle your specific sites.

All sites are different, and it depends not just on the traffic load, but the sorts of things your sites are doing each time a user makes a request.

However, I can offer that two of the most important things are RAM and disk speed.

You do have a decent amount of RAM there at 16GB.

I'd suggest making sure that you have fast disk drives, if possible.

My initial thought is that the hardware you're looking at there is likely to work just fine, but it really does come down to what it is your sites are doing.

Submitted by paulfromsurrey on Sat, 08/15/2015 - 11:31 Pro Licensee

Hello Eric,

I appreciate your feedback. I decided to go with this setup ASUS Z97 Motherboard with i5 4460 (4x3.2GHz Quad Core, Socket 1150) with 32gb ram

I am hoping no drag after this system setup

I know you advise me to use high speed hardrive due to price i am thinking going with wd Black label 2x1 tera byte setup as mirror

or I can setup 2x500gb solid state but not sure interms of data this server will be good

or setup ssd hard 500 db and all the back up will be done on another drive

will the ssd hard drive speed on this setup will make huge difference

Please advise

Thanks

cpu =Core i5 4460
motherboard= Asus Z97-K/CSM Intel Z87 Chipset, Socket 1150
Kingston HyperX Fury Memory Black 32GB 4X8GB DDR3-1600 CL10 Dual Channel Memory Kit

Submitted by andreychek on Sat, 08/15/2015 - 12:14

It's really difficult to say, unfortunately.

Yes, SSD is much faster than older spinning drives.

However, whether that would help in your case depends on your applications, and what their bottlenecks are.

If your applications are being slowed down by slow disks, then the SSD would make a huge difference. If they aren't, it may not make a noticeable difference.

You would need someone familiar with your web applications and performance of your old server to offer advice on that.

What we can offer though is that the Virtualmin control panel would run great on all the setups you proposed.

Submitted by paulfromsurrey on Sat, 08/15/2015 - 12:22 Pro Licensee

Thanks eric,

thats all i am running is virtualmin only

no other application no other devices

just virtualmin with centos 7

so i should go with 2xssd hard drive 500 gb as mirror setup and setup another drive for backups

Submitted by andreychek on Sat, 08/15/2015 - 12:29

We really can't make a suggestion on how to spend your money in your hardware, to really know, you'll need to do benchmarks of the websites you'll be hosting.

All we can offer is that you should consider fast drives if your websites have a disk bottleneck. If they aren't being slowed down by your disk speeds -- then SSD may not make a large difference.

Of course, if you can afford it, it can't hurt to go with the faster option :-)

Submitted by paulfromsurrey on Sat, 08/15/2015 - 19:09 Pro Licensee

Hello Eric,

I am just setting up the sever and I installed the centos and virtualmin no problem

how ever some how I can cancel the first setup wizard instead of press next i click on the cancel

I just want to run the wizard so I can allocate the right memory to all those program

Please let me know how i can initiate the setup wizard

Submitted by andreychek on Sat, 08/15/2015 - 21:12

It sounds like you may have figured this out, but you can re-run the install wizard by going into System Settings -> Re-Run Install Wizard.