Hi,

my site which was launched less than 3 weeks ago already outgrown the limit of my VPS.

looking at the growth rate i believe i need to plan the roadmap at least for the next 2 months.

Current resource usage :

CPU : 1GHz average, maxed at 1.6GHz (and killed by VPS fair-share)
RAM : 365MB average, max 925MB
BW : 80GB daily
Disk IO read : Max 463k, Avg 40k
Disk IO write : Max 44k, Avg 8.1k
Disk Transaction Read : 991/s max, 200/s avg.
Disk Transaction Write : 324/s max, 84/s avg.
Disk Usage : 1.2GB

current registered members : 600
expected registered members : 10,000 after next 2 months
expected disk capacity : 1TB effective (means, add more for RAID)

i'm planning to buy my own server and do co-lo, but still blur on the hardware spec as i never deal with made-to-be-a-server type of machine.

i'm thinking of a Quad-Core Xeon, would it be an overkill to buy a Double-Quad-Core? or should i at least get one that support dual processor.

if a processor spec-sheets specify that the clockspeed is 1.6GHz, is that the speed of it's individual core, or the total sum of all 4 core?

can i order online from malaysia, say from US Dell, and ask them to deliver to NOC in US? Will it be a big trouble to have the Host to send them to another host (or to me) when i terminate the service.

or will it be more economical if i just rent dedicated server?

If i go for a 1U unit, i'm afraid it's trouble to expand. If i go for 3U, it will be a waste until the time i really need the extra.

my file server already suspended my account. I'm using 2 seperate server, one for media file, and the other is for the php files & mysql.

please advice.