What is better?

We are upgrading our servers and I am wondering what is better, two servers (PII 300 196M RAM and 64M RAM 8+ Gig IDE Drive, 10/100Mbs Ethernet Card) one running MySQL and the other Apache and PHP3 or just one more powerful server (PII 350, 256M SDRAM, 2 8+ Gig SCSI HDs, 10/100Mbs Nic Card)
running MySQL, Apache and PHP3? The MySQL server get 1400 000 questions/day and crashes around 5 time/day... Cost doesn't matter I just wan't to know which of these two configurations will be faster and more efficient...

Any other tips would be helpful. Thanks in advanced.

Which config would be better for you would depend somewhat on the relative level of demand upon Apache and mysql. If I read your activity figures correctly, you're going to find that no matter how you configure it you're be thin on RAM.

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