Web server spec

J.B

J.B

J.B

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Was just chatting to a friend and were talking about company intranets. Long story short what would the approx spec be for a Linux based webserver, that could support a maximum of 2000 concurrent users?
I know its a very ambigous question but I think my mate has been asked by his boss :rolleyes:
I said it would probably be better to have a couple of servers and load balance. Obviously some form of RAID redundancy and back up needs to be in place as well.

Any thoughts?
 
Hi,

So your going to be running Linux, with apache? What type of pages will you be serving? Static html pages or dynamic php pages attached to a db on the same server??
 
Ahh, I think he was talking about PHP with some sort CMS system, so I guess that would involve a lot of MySQL lookups. Yes with apache.
 
2 thousand concurrent users would generally suggest a couple of front-end web servers, load balanced and then a beefy MySQL box dealing with the MySQL on its own.

The webservers don't have to be high end, but the MySQL box should have plenty of CPU and RAM. :)
 
Generally considering web servers typially have a lot of concurrent reads rather than writes to the disk so either a Raid 1 or Raid 10 configuration using 10K or 15krpm drives works best and enough memory to cope with the running processes/application pools typically between 2gb and 4gb.

From a HP standpoint a DL360 or a couple of load balanced DL320's would do the job well.
 
Lots of assumptions here already so I'll add my questions:

jsp or asp?
hosting the db or with a separate db server?
dynamic or static pages?

what sort of CMS? Enterprise like Interwoven, Stellent or Intranet like Vignette?
Do you have a corporate preference for Linux or would Windows do? Or *nix?
Does it have to be x86?

I could pull a configuration from what I sit on but it wouldn't be meaningful without a lot more information.
 
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