chantown Posted July 16, 2007 Share Posted July 16, 2007 Hi everyone, I'm planning on purchasing an economic-level server. People will be downloading PDFs and uploading PDFs on the website, which is MYSQL-run. How many people do you think this can hold at one time, or how many visitors a day etc? (Fedora Core LAMP) DELL Inspiron 530 ($350) Intel® Celeron ® Processor 420 (1.60GHz, 800 FSB) 1.5 GB DDR2 RAM 160GB Serial ATA Hard Drive (7200RPM) w/DataBurst Cache ------ 5Mbps Down/ 1 Mbps Up Should I upgrade the processor to Intel®Pentium® dual-core processor E2140 (1MB L2,1.60GHz,800 FSB)? I know these are very cheap parts, but that's all I can really afford! Thanks for your input everyone! Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/60162-how-many-will-this-hold/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
keeB Posted July 16, 2007 Share Posted July 16, 2007 What are your performance requirements? How big are the PDF's? Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/60162-how-many-will-this-hold/#findComment-299310 Share on other sites More sharing options...
chantown Posted July 16, 2007 Author Share Posted July 16, 2007 I hope to have around ~200 connected to my database simultaneously, aiming at around 3000 unique visitors a day The PDFs are user uploaded/downloaded its a sharing site Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/60162-how-many-will-this-hold/#findComment-299319 Share on other sites More sharing options...
keeB Posted July 16, 2007 Share Posted July 16, 2007 With 1Mb upload... I think bandwidth will be the limiting factor. Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/60162-how-many-will-this-hold/#findComment-299321 Share on other sites More sharing options...
chantown Posted July 16, 2007 Author Share Posted July 16, 2007 Oh i c, thanks, The bandwidth isn't a big deal...What about the hardware itself? Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/60162-how-many-will-this-hold/#findComment-299327 Share on other sites More sharing options...
steviewdr Posted July 17, 2007 Share Posted July 17, 2007 That spec server should do ok. It depends on how your upload/download application is built and whether it caches much stuff or not. The bandwith will definately be your bottleneck. What exactly is: 5Mbps Down/ 1 Mbps Up Is this going to be in your house or in a datacenter? You would want at least 10Mbps outgoing from your server and 5Mbps ingoing to your server. Note - dont get the upload and download mixed up. -steve Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/60162-how-many-will-this-hold/#findComment-300206 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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