ThePlanet.com : questions regarding HA solution ?

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This web hosting discussion started by radiance on 23 March 2006

We are a customer at theplanet and currently have ~15 total control enterprise servers scattered troughout your datacenters, which is proving to be a mess. we would like to consolidate parts of these onto a new setup.

We are currently in the planning phase for a new setup.
I have the following questions:

- We need an amd64 or EM64T capable dual or quad CPU box. what are the possibilities ?
- Can we have the debian-amd64 port on this server ?
- Can we have more than 6GB of memory ?
- we need to run a high profile mysql server with a large cache.
- this must be affordable. we cannot afford a super costly enterprise SOLARIS/SPARC environment.

- We would like to order 4-5 boxes, with an internal/backend network/switch. 2 of these boxes will have NO public connection, they are backend DB servers. is this possible ?
- We require this setup to be physically together as to allow
the backend network. is this possible ?
- If possible, can we reserve more rack units to be kept free in order to add more boxes in the SAME PHYSICAL location later to expand our cluster ?
- maybe we can reserve a complete RACK just for us, is this possible ?

- if we were to take the firewall option , can we administer the FW rules ourselves ? or do we have to relay our changes to theplanet support staff ?

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