Comment Re:STOP. You have no idea what you're doing. (Score 1) 298
I'm sorry, but I have to say that. Don't be offended, please - sooner or later you will look at your submission and laugh really hard, but for now you need to realise that you said something very, very silly. A few people already politely pointed out that 1000 visitors a day is nothing - but seriously, it's such a great magnitude of nothingness that, if you make such a gross misintepretation of your expected traffic, you need to reconsider if you really are the right person for the job *right now* and maybe gain some more experience before trying to spend other people's money on a ton of hardware that will just sit there, idle and consume huge amounts electricity (also paid by other people's money).
Unless his main objective is actual high availability and not processing power. A single server with a single upstream provider is no way to house mission critical data/transactions, even if the server is sitting at 99% idle. I would rather get 2 servers running Xen with two haproxy VM's setup with linux-ha, two apache VM's and 2 database VM's replicated than I would throw everything on one server and hope and pray it stays online 24x7x365.
