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[Paulo Grácio <paulogracio@xxxxxxxxx>]

Really don't get your point Bob, just asked Nami a question... is there a
problem with that?

/Paulo

On 5 May 2015 at 10:01, Bob Jolliffe <bobjolliffe@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> My goodness this seems to have pressed so many buttons for the cloud
> fetshists.  Would you ever just answer the question. There can be any
> number of good reasons why someone might be buying hardware.
>
> Nami, if you are buying/renting a virtual server I'd try out pretty
> small and see what you can get away with.  So something like 4G RAM
> and 2 cpus might well handle the load.  (Having 50 users is one thing
> but its also pretty variable depending on what those users are
> actually doing).   If you find yourself struggling you are going to
> need to increase but that is generally painless enough.  Thats a real
> benefit of cloud provisioning.
>
> If you are investing in physical hardware then do be sure to think a
> lot about some of Jason's points.  You need to think beyond a single
> machine and think about the environment, redundancy, off site backups
> etc.   All of which are perfectly possible to think about and manage
> Generally you will take the opposite approach from above and budget
> for more than you need to take into account growth etc, and just that
> you really don't want to be left short on what might be a long and
> arduous procurement process.  A possible sensible approach many
> organisations take is to invest big in hardware and then virtualize
> within it.
>
> After all that, a thumbsuck for a 50 user system ..... Quad core cpu
> with 32G RAM and 1TB of storage of which maybe 100G ssd.   Backup
> server with a big disk (and not much else).  Depending a lot really on
> where you are, maybe a tape drive for archive.
>
> On 5 May 2015 at 08:21, Paulo Grácio <paulogracio@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Hi, why buy hardware and not go with cloud?
> >
> > Sent from my iPhone
> >
> > On 04 May 2015, at 15:32, Nami Ghadri <nami_ghadri@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> >
> >
> > Thanks I saw that ,
> >
> >
> >
> > If I could have specification server that has been used in real world
> direct
> > from users
> >
> >
> >
> > I am now In the stage of buying hardware so any advice would greater
> >
> >
> >
> > Thanks very much
> >
> >
> >
> > From: ronald munjoma [mailto:simbiso@xxxxxxxxx]
> > Sent: Monday, May 4, 2015 3:31 PM
> > To: Nami Ghadri
> > Cc: dhis2-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: Re: [Dhis2-users] server specification
> >
> >
> >
> > Hi Nami,
> >
> >
> >
> > On 4 May 2015 at 13:19, Nami Ghadri <nami_ghadri@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> >
> >
> > Could anyone give guidance about DHIS2/postgresql server hardware
> > specification for about 50 user
> >
> >
> >
> > https://www.dhis2.org/doc/snapshot/en/implementer/html/ch08.html#d5e413
> >
> >
> >
> > Best and Regards
> >
> > Ronald Munjoma
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Best regards,
> >
> >
> >
> >
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-- 
Paulo Grácio