July 15, 2008 at 8:58 am
Everyone, we have just learned that our hosting company can not give us the appropriate disk layout for our partitioning scheme. My gut feeling is the Horizontal Range partitioning against 5 files on one spindle would actually perform poorer than one physical file. Any thoughts?
July 15, 2008 at 9:22 am
You might find that it performs better if the server has multiple CPUs. I doubt that it will perform worse.
I would be more concerned about the hosting company. If they can’t or won’t give you what you need, you should look for another hosting company.
July 15, 2008 at 9:24 am
Yeah, this is a recurring problem. The problem is the rack is physically full!! Be a month or so for the new rack. This is a very large hosting company and my request for 5 phyical RAID 10 data spindles should not be that big of deal.
July 15, 2008 at 12:40 pm
A lot of factors will determine if it will help, hurt, or do nothing.
However, it is not going to wander far into the better or worse category, so I would partition it in preparation for getting the new drives. Then all you have to do is move the partition.
And I agree, a hosting vendor that ran out of space in the rack is a bit scary. Someone managing your hardware should at least be able to come up with a better excuse than not having planned for growth. That seems a lot like a painter forgetting to bring a second brush.
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