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How much ram do you think id need for a server for a business server that will be used for about 75 people?

this is for a theoretical write up for my college work basically its confectionary company with 4 departments

Office 4 users
Wharehouse 4 users
Sales team 25 users
Accounting 15 users


So although I have set it out when it comes to write up I want to try to show im taking all things into account and adding as much detail as possible.

thanks for any help guys I was thinking 64gb but am not sure ?
 
Its just a simple business server, so id assume accounts of - all kinds e.g. clients, stock deliveries, invoices and such I know I could just whack in any number but I thought id ask and get an idea
 
Very hard to say without a lot more info, presumably there is a Database or 2, probably some file sharing, maybe internally hosted e-mail....

I expect 64GB would be more than enough, though I'd also be looking at virtualising and splitting out the various services to different servers so that you don't have to take down the entire company when one system goes for a burton.

I'm speccing servers at the minute and 64GB of memory would come in at about £600, which is not a great deal at all for a company of 75 people.
 
It will have an

Active Directory Domain Controller/DNS
DHCP
Email
File Sharing

(that's it just now this scenario if being built up week by week to prepare us for our end of year project so its unclear what will be added later) lol
 
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Well you'd need two of them for a start so you have some failover. And you wouldn't want to be installing other services on your domain controllers so you'd either need lots of boxes (no) or to virtualize it all. And then you have the costs of building a room that is secure enough and has the right sort of environment to house servers in, at which point you're building a small datacentre for 75 people which doesn't make much sense.

You can make the hardware costs go away quite a lot by hosting your 2 DCs (DNS, DHCP, etc) on Azure in a private network and linking this back to your site over a VPN meaning you only have to deal with file storage locally, which you can do with a cheapish NetApp or a Windows Storage Server appliance. For email use Google Apps or Hosted Exchange.

I'd be concerned if your course is pushing you to drop a single tower server with one Windows install running everything, into the corner of an office for a company of 75.
 
Is this homework or actual something that's going live? If it's homework you really should do the research yourself without asking.

What we say we would put into a server may be not what you might put into it. There is no real answer as long as you justify why you require that much with minor calculations.
 
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