I just bought a Dell PowerEdge 1650 Web Server with a 1.13 Ghz processor, 256 MB RAM, and a SCSI disk. The site that is going to run on the server uses PHP, PostgreSQL, mod_gzip, and PHP Accelerator. Apart from running that site, the server won't have any other major tasks (expect for handling mail for the site). Do you have any idea as to how many visitors per day a server like that will be able to accommodate?

Thanks in advance for your replies.

It depends on what the sites that generate hits have on them. Do they have CGI or PHP scripts, do they interact with the database? What is the nsture of them will determine better how many it can handle.

Don't worry , with that configuration you can accomodate quite a big lot of hits. Although it also depends on site you host on the server, their processes and use of server resources by the sites.

Haley, as far as "quite a big lot of hits" go, could you be more precise? :) I know it's not an exact science - I'm just interested in the ballpark figure.

The site running on the server (there will only be one single, high-traffic site on the server) uses PHP for all of its pages. However, not all pages connect to the PostgreSQL server. Those that do, however, do use semi-heavy queries (well, actually, the queries themselves aren't that complicated, but the tables will be rather large, causing the queries to be slower).

From my experience that server will easily handle 10,000 unique users per day. :cool:

Originally posted by jonaskb
I just bought a Dell PowerEdge 1650 Web Server with a 1.13 Ghz processor, 256 MB RAM, and a SCSI disk. The site that is going to run on the server uses PHP, PostgreSQL, mod_gzip, and PHP Accelerator. Apart from running that site, the server won't have any other major tasks (expect for handling mail for the site). Do you have any idea as to how many visitors per day a server like that will be able to accommodate?

Thanks in advance for your replies.

Just to give you a ball park figure

your server with a gross page size of 115K requiring for a full page load 16 hits, should be able to handle 350k - 400K hits or about 22K - 25K page loads per hour.

the only reason I know this is because I just reviewed for purchase a 1650 poweredge.

The config you are choosing is very much for a forum type server, the mod_gzip with the php accell.. is the text side and the give-a-way.

what you might look at is a used dell dual 550 pentium servers that run about $800 and install a raid 5 system ( about 700 more ) and now you have a heck of a forum delivery system.,

you should be able to split the I/O load to dedicate one cpu for the drive control cards and the ofther for the rest

Mike