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[Spunkyz]

Hi there,

Would like to hear your advise on the below server specs. for my project: Training System where users login to register for course, download course materials and do online assignements in java.

There will be a total of 2 Servers, 1 Database server that consists of mySQL only or mySQL and DB2E

Application Server:

1 X Intel Xeon processor
2 GB Ram
240 GB SCSI or SATA Hard Disk

Database Server
1 X Intel Xeon processor
2 GB Ram
80 GB SCSI or SATA Hard disk

There will be a total of up to 20,000 users accessing the server daily.

Is the above configurations capable enough to serve the amount of users mentioned above?

Also will there be any problem if i install mysql and DB2E or mysql and Oracle database softwares inside the Database server?

Deeply appreciate your advise.

thanks

[Philco]

Its so difficult to work out its realy not worth bothering and any result will probably be innacurate as there are so many variables.

My advice (unless your swimming in cash) is to go with one low end server and see how it handles it, if your site needs more then upgrade the server if it doesn`t you`ve saved yourself a wad of cash.

Both those servers of yours seem like mid level.

Philco

[Spunkyz]

Thanks for your advise!

Another question is, do i need to go with branded servers like Dell, IBM ,etc or a custom build servers will be just fine?


What are the cons and pros between this two?

Deeply appreciate your help.

Thanks

[dollar]

Its up to you what type of server you go with. If you go name brand you usually end up getting a support package with the server (next day replacement or something of the sort if you pay for the nice packages) which can make the difference. If you go with a whitebox (custom) solution you usually are responsible for taking the part that goes bad, sending it to the company, they then send you the replacement, and it can take weeks sometimes.

As mentioned above there really is no way for us to give you the specs of the server that you will need. It depends on the actual number of users per day, hour, minute, and at the same time as well as the needs of the application itself and in addition the bandwidth requirements, etc...

The machines you have listed above would be a good start, and it seems like you would be able to scale your application with very little trouble so you should be just fine to expand as you need to.

[eth00]

As far as the requirements the bigger thing is simply how optimized the software is that you are running. If you have each connect running 100 queries and a few of them needing writing you are going to hvae some trouble. If you can I would purchase a dual cpu systemboard for the mysql server to allow for upgrading later if you expect growth. IT is easy enough to just drop a second httpd server in if you want to expand.