I was wondering if someone knows what kind of server power WHT needs to run their vb of 300-400 people online. I'm asking many forums what their power needs are to better gauge what I should be upgrading to.

Our advanced hosting solution at RackSpace consists of a firewall in front of a Cisco load balancer unit. We have 5 web servers which are Dell PowerEdge 2650 boxes with 2 GIG of ram, dual 2.0 GHz Intel Xeon processors and 3 15000 RPM SCSI drives running Raid 5. Each site hosted connects to one of 3 seperate database servers over a backup network. Each database server is a Dell PowerEdge 2650 server with 4 GB ram, dual 2.0 GHz Intel Xeon processors with 3 15000 RPM SCSI drives running in a raid 5 configuration.

Additionally, we have complex backup servers connected in which our databases are replicated and backed to tape on a daily basis, as are the website content.

keep in mind that setup is definitely not for the wht site by itself. no1 knows how many high traffic and mission critical sites it houses.

for a regular 300-400 user vb, depending on the activities and optimizations, a single powerful server should handle it easily.

Originally posted by qm8309
keep in mind that setup is definitely not for the wht site by itself. no1 knows how many high traffic sites it houses.

There are a few :dgrin:

All I can likely say is that they are other iNet properties...

Oh my....... that is quite some setup :o

Indeed :) On Rackspace network.

it's sweet :) i want some