Upgraded Server RAM
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Well, the upgrade to the server last night went well. Adding more RAM should buy us another year on this server before we need a CPU upgrade. Traffic growth has slowed down for the summer so things are looking good.
Only Bob, Sephrena and I knew about the upgrade, if it hadn't worked I would have just rolled the database back to 1 a.m. this morning and gone ahead with the old memory. The tech called at 1:15 a.m. and was done by about 2:30 a.m. and it works like a champ. :) We upgraded from 2 gig to 3.5 gig (max the motherboard recognizes) for $150. This should help us avoid the bottleneck of lots of large database calls all happening at once.
We can already see that the load on the server has dropped 20% to 50%, so that's good. :)
Hugs,
Erin