Which type of processor (Celeron 2.0 Gigs or P4 2.0 Gigs)we need for a little busy ecommerce website with 1000 transactions or more everyday?
Any clue
Nish

If you are looking for performance, the P4 with its larger internal cache will win over the Celeron hands down.

It depends on the transactions, do they occur all at one time or constantly throughout the day ?

If you are looking at say 1 transaction per second, the Celeron can actually do the job just fine.

I would personally go for the P4. The Celeron will however, I would have thought, be cheaper, and is just the P3 chip, so its pretty good buy.

Depends if you’re on a limited budget i suppose :)

Warm Regards,
Ben

Ben,

The Celeron 1.7 and above uses the same P4 architecture but just comes with 1/2 the internal cache.

The Celeron 1.4 and below uses the P3 architecture.

Originally posted by eddy2099

It depends on the transactions, do they occur all at one time or constantly throughout the day ?

If you are looking at say 1 transaction per second, the Celeron can actually do the job just fine.

Actually the transaction wil be constantly, like 50 to 100/hour and avg of 10 to 20/hour....? how much ram do i need??? any ideas

Get the faster CPU if you have a busy database, or there is a chance that it will grow to become busy/intensive.

I guess i should take a P4 box then, thanks everyone,
btwn i dono wheather this is the correct forum to ask any ideas about SSL certificates>???

If you could afford it, go for a P4 with 1gb RAM. It may be an overkill most of the time but it would probably allow you to survive some more intensive situations.

I have a Celeron 1.7 with 1gb RAM and just had over 50 people signed up for a seminar and it survived quite smoothly. If you are asking, it is a Windows 2003 based server.

With Linux, you would probably have a better throughput for the same configuration.

Thanks Eddy for your time, any idea about ssl cert

Originally posted by Nish
I guess i should take a P4 box then, thanks everyone,
btwn i dono wheather this is the correct forum to ask any ideas about SSL certificates>???
So far I use GeoTrust, because they seem reasonable value and I'm not sure I like the idea of chained certs yet.

There are more expensive such as Verisign/Thawte (don't get me started on Verisign though!).

There are also cheaper chained certificates such as Commodo.

Some more info here, bear in mind that these aren't really impartial though:

http://www.whichssl.org/ (run by GeoTrust)
http://www.*************/ (run by Commodo)

Urgh, I see the Commodo one is blocked, anyhow replace org for com.

Yup, I purchased several Geotrust Quick SSL through http://www.rackshack.net . They are going for $25US and works on any platform and server in and out of rackshack.

Make sure if you have server set up and DNS propagated first before you purchase the SSL so you could test them right away.

I guess you already know, you need one unique IP for one SSL certificate. As to how to generate the request certificate would be dependent on whether you are doing it by hand or through a control panel.

Even if you are going to process 30 to 40 transactions per second, the Celeron isn't going to breakdown because of it. It may take several milliseconds more to complete the job. But it still depends on the overall system, speed of connection, speed of ram, speed of harddisk.

Yes Eddy & Paul thanks
btwn iam planning to go with comodo, instant SSL are they ok for payment transactions?

Typically they should be okay. It all depends on what your typical transaction amount is. If it is going to be up to maybe $500 or so, no one really bothers. If it is going to be running a bank website or transactions in the thousands of dollars each, maybe something like Verisign or Thawte would do.

Usually someone sees the Lock there and they feel happy.

Yes Eddy everyone looks only for the lock and click and find the website URL and feel happy, But Geotrust offers many SSL which one is right for me, all transactions (Actual) are under verisign by our bank, we just carry informations not even cc# just personal info we need one just for trust or the lock ;) and a site seal tooo

Any Ideas

Then no problem and if you are going Comodo the Pro SSL should give you that seal. The Instant doesn't.

On the Geotrust end, the QuickSSL Premium gives you that seal too.

If you do not need the seal then the basic ones would do.

Thanks once again eddy, i will take sometime iam already readin the forum for COMODO and Geotrust, I guess i need the seal ;)