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Originally Posted by facialfreak
In my experience ... a great many site owners focus on getting the most hardware they can - with the most impressive specs - and in doing so, not only are paying for hardware overkill, but not putting enough emphasis on their technical support.
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Agreed whole heatedly.
What many, if not most we see, realistically
need (unless they are running a high bandwidth, high traffic, media driven site for example) is a decent Dual Core server with some decent, not excessive, bandwidth speed.
Quad Cores, Dual Quad Cores with 100TB pipes and 16GB of RAM etc. is over kill for what many actually need. They should cut back on the hardware, and invest so me of that money in back ups and redundancy. You do not need super computers for blogs, link networks, and what not. Some decent bandwidth on a solid machine would do just fine. However, most clients come demanding what they
want versus truly need based on their own traffic and history numbers.
