does someone can tell me what are hardware requirements for generic IIS7 websites hosting on one Windows server where only IIS7 and FTP is installed (maybe some ranges like <100 pages - 1GB 1CPU, 100-300 - 2GB 1CPU etc).
Thanks in advance
does someone can tell me what are hardware requirements for generic IIS7 websites hosting on one Windows server where only IIS7 and FTP is installed (maybe some ranges like <100 pages - 1GB 1CPU, 100-300 - 2GB 1CPU etc).
Thanks in advance
The number of pages isn't so important as what those pages are doing and how much traffic you have. The same server with 20,000 basic HTML pages might have the same load levels as a server with 100 ASP.Net pages that have intensive database access or data processing. My general rule of thumb is to buy the best and fastest hardware that we can afford. Hardware is relatively cheap, so don't skimp and go with the bare minimum required. Get a decent server with RAIDed storage, redundant power, fast hard drives, and lots of memory (4GB for 32-bit operating systems, more for 64-bit).
Also, see Jeff Atwood's server specs for what they're using to run Stack Overflow and ServerFault as a baseline. These are really busy sites running on a small handful of decent servers that were pretty inexpensive to build.
HERE is a link to MS's own list of requirements for running Windows Web Server 2008 R2.