How Much Memory?
The second major hardware question is: How much memory? Fortunately, this is very simple to answer. When in doubt, buy as much memory as your budget can afford and your server can accommodate. No other hardware component as generally, easily, or quickly provides such dynamic performance improvements. Moreover, memory is by far the easiest hardware component to incrementally augment as time goes on. If you don't get enough memory at the start, don't hesitate to add more. Just make sure that you adjust your database and application parameters to take full advantage of all memory.
So, do you just order as much memory as the server can hold or the budget can afford? What if you have multiple servers? Fortunately, you can be a bit ...
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