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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 ...
Peeyush Kushwaha's user avatar
9 votes
1 answer
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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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4 answers
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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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1 answer
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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 ...
Ravi Kumar's user avatar
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4 answers
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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 ...
TheTechGuy's user avatar
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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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3 votes
7 answers
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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 ...
Jason Weber's user avatar
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2 answers
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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. ...
GeekTantra's user avatar
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2 answers
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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. ...
merlin's user avatar
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3 votes
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How do you choose the EC2 instance for your django app? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: 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 ...
Irfan's user avatar
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2 votes
1 answer
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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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1 vote
3 answers
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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 ...
ppyhd's user avatar
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4 votes
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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]

Possible Duplicate: Can you help me with my capacity planning? 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 ...
Muhammad Ebrahym's user avatar
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2 answers
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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]

Possible Duplicate: 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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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 ...
adbrpc's user avatar
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1 vote
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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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1 vote
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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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3 votes
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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 ...
WuckaChucka's user avatar
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IOPS bottleneck in design? [duplicate]

I'm building a 45 drives (backblaze) storage pod for use with Windows 2012 R2 Storage spaces. Spec is 2xE5-2620 v2 cpus, 32 GB ram, 3xLSI 9201-16i cards, 9x1 TB SATA SSDs, and 36x4TB HGST ultrastar ...
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Hardware requirement for video serving to 1000 concurrent users [duplicate]

Can someone help us, we are looking to roll out a video on demand platform to provide internal staff the ability to view content. we will need to stream to 1000 users, the video files will be 720p ...
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Server for a Web TV...dedicated? [duplicate]

I'm developing a website and I want to integrate a Live Web TV. I have this dedicated server : Quad Core Q6600 4x 2.40+ GHz 4GO RAM 1TO Disk Space Unmetered Bandwidth 100Mbps (goes down to 10Mbps if ...
Emanuel's user avatar
5 votes
1 answer
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Complete High Availability System [duplicate]

I'm in the process of configuring a LAMP server but want to make sure it'll be ready for expansion for the future. Here's my current setup.. Two physical windows servers clustered with Hyper-V Two ...
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What are the minimum specs for Ubuntu server to host a subversion repository? [duplicate]

I need to build an server (Ubuntu 9.10 server) to host source control (subversion) from my house. What are the minimum specs (processor and RAM) to do this with good performance? I'll need to buy ...
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Can I host multiple sites with one Amazon EC2 instance [duplicate]

I currently have VPS server and I pay around $75 per month and I get: 40GB HD 2Gb RAM 100GB BW 6 core cpu (but i dont use much) I have only one live website running and traffic is only max 100 user ...
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mpm_prefork values for 2-4 GB RAM [duplicate]

I have bought new linode (1GB). On this page :https://www.linode.com/docs/websites/lamp/install-lamp-on-ubuntu-16-04 Linode says: Below are the suggested values for a 1GB Linode: File:/etc/...
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How many websites per virtual machine? [duplicate]

We are currently hosting about 10 of our own various websites on a virtualised host. Each website is hosted by its own virtual machine with its own apache. Some of the sites connect to a shared ...
Rob Forrest's user avatar
2 votes
3 answers
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Server cost for smartphone app with web service [duplicate]

I am working on a smartphone application that will require a backend web service - but I have absolutely clueless to how much it will cost. Web Service will handle: - login of users - cataloging of ...
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Windows Server 2012 R2 Standard + Essentials Setup for Small Office [duplicate]

We want to setup a "small" server for on of our offices (8 Client Computers, local Domain not linked). We need to have an Exchange Server. Unfortunately we cannot use SBS since its support is running ...
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Complete infrastructure capacity planning exercise [duplicate]

Despite my colleague and myself being application developers by nature, our current contract engagement has placed us into the infrastructure operations branch of our customer. While we are still ...
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Choosing a server for hosting a web API [duplicate]

I'm not fully sure it is appropriate to ask here - apologies if it is not. I want to set up a webservice (REST API) using PHP on top of Ubuntu. I looked over what the hosting company I'm already ...
Jeroen De Dauw's user avatar
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1 answer
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Statistics of logstash memory consumption [duplicate]

I want to install it on a really small server and I want to see if it will be capable of running it with some dignity. So, does anyone have any memory and CPU consumption statistics of running ...
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max_connections for 8GB RAM and shared server [duplicate]

I just wanted to ask what would be a good number in my.cnf in MySQL for max_connections? I have a shared server which has about 10 websites and 8GB RAM and a quad-core processor.
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How much memory should I put in our SQL server 2008 server? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Can you help me with my capacity planning? Currently our SQL server 2008 machine has 24 gb of memory. After analyzing some reports (PAL) and performance counters, I came to ...
Erik Dekker's user avatar
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Maximum concurrent users on linux server [duplicate]

I have a dedicated server with these info: 128G RAM 6 cores/12 threads CPU, 3.4GHz 512 SSD storage WHM/Cpanel latest Apache/MySQL Centos 7.x I have a single website on this server which have heavy ...
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What size bandwidth pipe do I need? [duplicate]

I am currently hosting in a data center and paying a very large monthly bill. We are moving to a new office and I have been toying with the idea of installing a leased line and self hosting. Public ...
George Filippakos's user avatar
1 vote
1 answer
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How do I decide what type of hardware to use for a firewall? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Can you help me with my capacity planning? What are the hardware performance requirements to set up a PFsense firewall on my gigabit Ethernet network? Is high-performance ...
Utenosalus's user avatar
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1 answer
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Choosing EC2 instance for image processing [duplicate]

I am planning to use m1.small in Elastic Beanstalk for the image processing of my app. It can scale behind a load balancer and provide more processing power when the app needs to based on specific ...
Liron Harel's user avatar
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Minimum hardware requirements for running 8 thin clients with LTSP and LAMP [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Can you help me with my capacity planning? I wanted to figure out what are the minimum hardware requirements for running 8 smooth thin clients with Ubuntu and LTSP. The thin ...
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