Image Hosting Server Question(s)

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Posted by PicHosters, 02-27-2017, 09:07 PM
Friends, I'm looking into starting an image hosting site a bit like Imgur.com or Imageshack.us and my question(s) revolve around drives in the server. Option one being a dedicate box with a fast SDD for the OS, scripts, database and HTML with the image uploads to a less expensive server (that function built into script package). My thinking is the SSD helps the main site run quickly. Option two is a dedicated box with 1TB hard drive, and image uploads to a less expensive server. This is less expensive, but I fear main site functions may not be as quick with SATA drive compared to SSD. Thoughts for those that have seen such set-ups or hosted this style of site? I'd also appreciate opinions of RAM in the server. Lost of nice servers deals at lots of good hosts seem to feature just 8GB. So, is 16GB or even 32GB worth the extra? Thanks in Advance!
Posted by HumaneHostingOwner, 02-27-2017, 09:35 PM
That's ideally what you would want to do... Webserver running on SSDs and then the image storage server(s) using normal HDDs (maybe even toss in a few SSDs to boost). Then as for the image storage server(s) you want those with as much RAM that you can get your hands on. In order to take advantage of the RAM caching.
Posted by TrentaHost, 02-27-2017, 10:20 PM
What about RAID? I would suggest you do a small dedicated for the main website and then the image script itself on a secondary Dedicated (highEnd) with SSD's. We have a customer who does the same thing but he hosts his main website on a VPS, and then has seperate High-End Dedicated Server with 1TB's SSd's x 4 and uses each of them to host the files. But, he does File Sharing for big enterprises, and every time his storage server space is past 60% he add's a new server to his script, so the only thing he keeps updating is adding new servers. His script supports the addition of new servers. He uses one of those software scripts, I can't seem to think of the name right now but it's a popular one for filesharing where customers can upload files and earn money for every download etc..
Posted by PicHosters, 02-27-2017, 10:33 PM
Thanks - Thats helps a bunch.
Posted by TrentaHost, 02-27-2017, 11:22 PM
No worries, my pleasure and goodluck.
Posted by SolaDrive - John, 02-28-2017, 11:09 PM
Planning for the future is something you want to consider. So as Trenta mentioned about using a script that supports adding more servers as needed, if this is not an option you need to consider doing at the hardware level where you can add more servers in a daisy chain method. I am not sure what kind of redundancy you are thinking of but at the minimum you should be looking at raid-1, but I would suggest raid-10. How much space are you looking for per a server and what kind of budget do you have to work with?
Posted by arianna, 03-01-2017, 04:15 PM
for an image hosting 8gb of ram is ok ssd are faster but i recomend you hdd as you will need to store largue amount of data