We have been signing up a lot of JSP sites lately and I wanted to know what you guys think would be the best setup 1 or 2.

1. PIII-933mhz Processor
512mb SDRAM

2. Dual PIII-933mhz Processor
768mb SDRAM

I know that number 2 is twice as strong but if I were to have 200 sites running simple JSP files would number 1 be enough? Also would number 1 be enough if I had 400 JSP sites on the server.

It depends on a few factors. With Java, and especially JSPs in general, memory is more important than processor speed.

Then there are lots of configuration options that will make a difference there. For 200 sites I assume you're not going to have a seperate JVM for each site otherwise your memory requirements would be astronomical. So you can get away with a fairly heavyweight single JVM, say with 256 Meg heap size and once those JSPs are compiled you should be ok.

So, in response I would say put as much memory as you can on the P3-933 and that's probably a good setup.

M2k