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441 questions linked to/from Can you help me with my capacity planning?
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When to Add another server(s) [duplicate]
When is the right time to start adding(or thinking about adding) servers to your Web Application? What are the difficulties involved in going from a single server(DB and Web) to multiple?
For example:...
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Tmpfs vs NVME SSDs from performance POV [duplicate]
I have a script that creates large temporary files.
I'm inclined to use tmpfs for this, however I did a quick search for tmpfs performance and found this which reports speed as about 2GiB/s.
Modern ...
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How much free memory should I have on my webserver? [duplicate]
I have a webserver that's currently hosting two Wordpress sites and some java-based collaboration software. The server has 2G of memory and is currently using about 1.8G of the available memory. ...
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Web Server Hardware - What Do I Need? [duplicate]
I need a web server for static web content, a corporate blog and the company e-commerce system. I have some ideas, but thought of seeking additional feedback from the world's best server pros!
NOTE ...
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Hardware requirement for video serving to 400 concurrent users [duplicate]
I need to serve at least 400 concurrent users about 150MB of files (video/audio). What kind of hardware would you suggest is required? Planning to use Ubuntu for OS, and Apache for serving.
The ...
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How to handle 1M websocket connections (Nginx/HAProxy/Amazon/Google) [duplicate]
What nginx or haproxy setup is suggested for target 100K concurrent websocket connections?
What I think, a single nginx will not be able to take such traffic as well as concurrent connections. How ...
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When should I consider a 2 socket motherboard for Server? [duplicate]
We are buying a new server and the idea of dual socket motherboard comes up. Is 2 socket motherboard worth the price and hassle for an application that hosts a couple of websites and databases for a ...
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Sever configuration for 100 users [duplicate]
I have an issue related to what server to approximate for the following scenario (a real situation):
I have a server where will be stored some videos that can be accessed through a web application ...
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How much memory is required for base lamp setup? [duplicate]
I am planning on renting a VPS.
How much memory is required for a base setup of Debian, Apache, Mysql, PHP?
By base, I mean not considering traffic (which will be below 1k hits a day). No ...
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Is it enough a 100Mbps LAN for a server rack? [duplicate]
My website is growing and growing. So now i'm considering moving to a 2-server virtual rack (in ThePlanet).
Im thinking on using one server for the DBMS and the other for the Webserver (currently I ...
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will a 100GB database with large tables on MSSQL 2008 server run on a 3GB RAM system? [duplicate]
This will be only for testing and developing.
I have a 100 GB DB I am working on and need a sanbox envorinment.
The only hardware I have is a desktop with 3GB and 32bit.
I am able to install SQL 2008 ...
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Will adding CPU cores or RAM to my cloud server improve speed in my situation? [duplicate]
I have a Siteground cloud server, and I know nothing about servers. It hosts 8 websites, although 3 of them have their own dedicated IP addresses and cPanels.
It's on a Linux server, but there's ...
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Performance of Asterisk Telephony System on Linux [duplicate]
I needed some idea on the max concurrent calls a standard Asterisk Telephony System can handle on a 64 bit Linux server of 4GB RAM, 4 CPU cores and 10K RPM RAID0 HDD? Most of my calls will be reads.
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Can one root server handle over 50M requests per month? [duplicate]
I am running a LAMP Application installed on one server, happily serving about 1M PI per month. Now I am looking into a potential partnership where my app might serve around 50-80M requests per month. ...
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How do you choose the EC2 instance for your django app? [duplicate]
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Can you help me with my capacity planning?
My team has created a nice django app and now it is going to be deployed on an EC2 instance. Now there are a few questions that I am ...
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Apache HTTPD configuration for high load [duplicate]
Good day,
I want to be able to serve at least 7000 (preferably 10k) concurrent requests from my Apache Httpd. I have configured my httpd.conf with MPM worker with the following setup
ServerLimit ...
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how many virtual machines (servers) can I run at the same time? [duplicate]
Let's leave the memory issue for a moment, aside.
If I have two 64-cores AMD EPYC processors each, how many virtual machines (servers) can I run at the same time?
Is that right that I can run 64 VMs ...
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Need puppet server sizing and scale limits [duplicate]
My company is considering adopting Puppet to manage our infrastructure. We've heard that Puppet is not as efficient as other solutions such as CFEngine. Does anyone have any hard data about how many ...
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How much ram do I need to use a 4gig MySql Database? [duplicate]
I'm having a really hard time figuring out how much ram I need for this database. Right now it's one table that is mostly filled with text content and has +40k entries.
mysql> show table status;
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which server(s) should I use for my application? (300GB MySQL DB & Sphinx) [duplicate]
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I have written an application that uses MySQL & Sphinx for searching and storing information.
the application contains a ...
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What hardware is optimal for nginx as a reverse proxy? Should we go for more ram or more cpu power? How much of each? [duplicate]
We are planning to put an nginx reverse proxy in front of a static site and expect a traffic of about 120k http requests per minute on that.
Mostly doing proxy_pass with some address concatenation op ...
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Suitable specification for cPanel DNS only server [duplicate]
I manage a cluster of cPanel shared hosting servers and am considering utilising cPanel DNS only to run two (or more) dedicated DNS servers separate from the hosting servers. I'm hoping this will give ...
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Does a 150ms latency is good enough to launch a product (USA hosted in Europe)? [duplicate]
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Can you help me with my capacity planning?
Having worked for weeks on a new mobile app product, we are finally preparing a public launch in the coming weeks. However we wonder ...
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Is the server without GPU is good for remote desktop? [duplicate]
I want to buy a server 4 cores Intel Xeon E3-1220 v5 (16 GB RAM) but without GPU.
Is it OK to use as a remote desktop computer?
I know that we need GPU to show images on the screen but I don't know ...
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Server Sizing Methodology [duplicate]
Our development environment consist of JBoss 5.0.1 DB Server, SQL Server 2008, Oracle IDM. Hardware is Win 2008 32 bit, 4GB RAM. We have reached stage where our environment can not handle application ...
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How to determine approximate maximum number of requests? [duplicate]
I'm building a quite simple web application, and need to get some rough understanding of how much load my server can take.
Of course, this depends on a whole lot of factors, but I just need a rough ...
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Calculating required uplink capacity of network switch [duplicate]
Is there any common method (usable in practice) for estimating the uplink capacity of switch based on known number of users connected to this switch and the maximum internet speed they are allowed.
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IRC Server For 50 People? [duplicate]
I've seen this question before and I am sure it will be fine but I want assurance before I do it.
I am looking at running an IRC server with 128MB of ram and 500GB of BW.
The server will usually ...
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What hardware specs is needed to serve 100,000 clients on OpenVpn? [duplicate]
Serving vpn clients (tcp connections) with OpenVpn server relies on what ? Or how can we calculate the clients count with hardware specs ?
Does it rely on server bandwidth speed, like if we have a ...
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Planning trunk capacity for multiple GbE switches [duplicate]
Without measuring throughput (it's at the top of the list; this is just theoretical), I want to know the most standard method for trunking VLANs on multiple Gigabit (GbE) switches to a core Layer 3 ...
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