Hi Raju,
Thanks a ton for your precious words. I have few comments though: -
PS: No hurts meant. I would still like some serious comment from people. Thanks.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Raj Mathur" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "The Linux-Delhi mailing list" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, December 18, 2004 2:11 PM
Subject: Re: [ilugd] server config?
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"Vikram" == Vikram Mandal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Vikram> Hi All, I need to recommend the hardware needs for hosting Vikram> of two corporate websites of a major telecom company. The Vikram> sites will be based on popular open source content Vikram> management systems developed in PHP, MySQL. We will be Vikram> having two instances of the CMS e.g. one for each.
Vikram> The site is registered with newtworksolutions and they Vikram> have ranked its traffic ranking as 1. Could some please Vikram> suggest the RAM, Processor and type of server that would Vikram> be suitable preferably IBM, HP or may be SUN. The OS is Vikram> going to be some flavor of *nix. Site content will also Vikram> have flash, videos as well. Unfortunately I am yet to get Vikram> any info on the website stats. Lets take rough figure of a Vikram> max of 500 simultaneous hits during pick time which would Vikram> happen usually every quarter of the year.
You'd need something like a 2- or 4-processor box with 4G of RAM to handle that kind of traffic. Have hardware RAID with fast channels and disks.
duh! just for running 2 setups of the same CMS!!! I have heard webhosting companies running 800-900 sites on one machine of 1 processor and 1 GB of RAM. Would you be having some great contacts with hardware dealers too ;-)) May be you even like to help us choose a vendor.
Going in for a FLOSS CMS sounds good, but be aware that most CMSs (FLOSS and otherwise) are riddled with security holes. Hire a good security consultant to help you out.
Why do you feel FLOSS CMS is so weak? I have worked on atleast two FLOSS CMS and I must tell you the core is robust. May be the additional plugins/ extension, modules, released by so many contributors, may not be that good of a work.
And about not knowing security holes, I believe security holes comes to notice quickest in Open source community. So we can always fix them. Your above comment is same as the view of many Windows clients! May you could also provide some security solutions for me too. I keep getting windows update every alternate day.
[Incidentally I'm a good security consultant]
<g,d&r>
Whatever that meant.
I can only give opinions about Linux... no point in going in for a proprietary Unix when Linux works as well or better, and server costs are so much lower.
Vikram> Please also support your suggestion with fact and figures Vikram> as the recommendation for the same will have to justified Vikram> by me to our clients.
Facts: I said it so it must be true.
Figures: Here's three for a start: 36, 24 and 36. Please feel free to
I though you were a guy! Are you or..... never mind.
contact me if you require more -- I have tons of spare numbers lying around that I haven't used for quite some time.
Seriously, please don't expect the list to do your homework for you. You want suggestions, you'll get them; making them acceptable to your clients is your job.
Vikram> BTW, could some one also tell how do I figure out the Vikram> consumption of memory by my PHP scripts.
Vikram> And help, comments will be highly appreciated. And thank Vikram> you for reading this much.
Will give out what ever input I get back to the list.
You're welcome.
Regards,
- -- Raju
- -- Raj Mathur [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://kandalaya.org/
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