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[Bob Jolliffe <bobjolliffe@xxxxxxxxx>]

Sorry Paulo and Jason.

I misinterpreted your response thinking you were ignoring Nami's
question in order to ask your own.  Don't mind me,

On 5 May 2015 at 16:06, Paulo Grácio <paulogracio@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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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>> >
>> > Ronald Munjoma
>> >
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