Yes, it's because that's what I have. And honestly, I am only a little familiar with Win2K8, which seems a bit quirky to me. And I am worried that inexperience with it would lead to some problem I could not fix.
I know Win2K3 fairly well. You just set it up and it goes and goes, no problem. I am hoping four win2K3s servers in round robin will handle the load. On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 10:18 PM, Andrew Scott <[email protected]>wrote: > > Curious why you are going with Windows 2003 x86 ( I assume you already have > these licenses) over 2008 R2 x64 the speed difference is humungous. > > Also how much of this are you purchasing new as to comparing with what you > already have? > > I am wondering whether it might be cheaper to throw more hardware, ram at > the current boxes and Virtual Machine the instances. > > > Regards, > Andrew Scott > http://www.andyscott.id.au/ > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Rob Rhodes [mailto:[email protected]] > > Sent: Saturday, 7 May 2011 11:58 AM > > To: cf-talk > > Subject: Help! Too much tracffic and too little time! > > > > > > Hello. > > > > I have been a lurker on this board for a while, and never thought I was > > qualified enough to offer opinions. Well, that has not changed. > > > > But now I could really use some advice on how to gear up quickly to > handle > a > > ton of traffic on a cf9 site. > > > > I can't really go into the details, but I have just inherited a cf9/SQL > server site > > that gets well over a million page views per day. It was previously > running on > > multiple servers using shared array. > > > > It's an impossible task, but I have to have this up and running this > weekend. > > So, I don't have any time or money for complex solutions. I just need to > this > > all to stay up long enough to figure out a proper plan. > > > > Until then, here is my working plan. Please tell me what you think. > > > > I have 4 cf9 standard licences, and four servers running win2k3 x86 > (fairly fast > > processors and 4gb ram each). I have a fifth win2k3 server x64 running > SQL > > Server 2005. These servetrs are recent installs and do not have any > other > > sites on them. > > > > My plan is to load the site on all four servers, all pointing to the same > > database server (it appears much of the queries in the site are cached) > > > > I would then set up round-robin DNS to do the poor-mans load > distribution. > > > > Most importantly I am hoping some of the gurus here might have some jvm > > tuning suggestions to help handle the load. > > > > Ok let me have it. Is there any hope, or am I just hopelessly screwed? > > > > Rob > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:344320 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
