I need to make some recommendations for likely AOLserver server machines. Each connection will have a small amount of work to authenticate, decrypt, format the content, but most of the content will be provided by databases serviced by external database machines.
I believe the system will be network/cpu/copy bound more than disk i/o bound. We would like to be able to implement some very high connection rates. I am at a loss this afternoon in being able to give a good argument for why a mid-size, or big box could be expected to do significantly better than a typical low end server. What are the things you folks would look for to configure a server to get high connection rates out of AOLserver in an environment where there is no local database on the AOLserver server? Thanks, Jerry
