Re: How do I determine Server and Bandwidth Needs?

[Mike <koldark@xxxxxxxxx>]

Well... it is a government site so it would be the paper and such. I don't
have any ideas on current hit information and we are working on getting that
now. The CMS that we are using has caching so I would think most of it will
end up being treated as static content. I guess it kinda comes down to lets
say we get 10000 hits per day (low I am sure, but for easy math) and we have
an average page size of 16kb. What does that translate to in bandwidth? I
can figure 160,000 kb / day but how does that translate into a pipe size?

On 11/8/06, Walden H. Leverich <WaldenL@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Mike,
>
> What's "heavy server load"? 50 ppl/hour, 500/minute, 5000/second? If you
> announce something to your customer base of say, 10,000 customers and 5%
> of them come see it, you're not dealing w/large numbers. If you announce
> a free cruise to Tahiti during the season premier of 24 ... Well... <G>
>
> There are a number of tools you can use to estimate traffic and
> performance of a site, Microsoft's own ACT isn't bad for rough numbers.
>
> And what happens if your site does go down? Do you need redundancy?
>
> Finally, why in house and what does the site look like? Does it make
> sense to have the site hosted somewhere w/a big pipe to the net and just
> the data traffic over your pipe, or leave the "app" at your site but
> move all the static content (images, .js, .css, .etc.) to another
> location, either an ISP, or something like akamai.
>
> -Walden
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>
> So we are going to be putting up an in-house external web server
> (Windows
> 2003) soon. We have a server and are looking into the pipe coming in.
> Where
> do we start to determine the size of the pipe? There is the obvious
> (number
> of hits * size of pages), but what other factors do we need to take into
> account? We expect a heavy server load initially with the announcement
> and
> would like to not have it crash the first day.
>
> Also, I don't know the full stats on the server, but we are delivering
> ASP.NET pages (via a cached source). We have 2GB of RAM and I would
> guess a
> dual CPU of some sort. What do you think?
>
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