Thanks to all of you for your suggestions.
And shana tova.
Valery
>________________________________
>From: Marc Volovic <marcvolo...@me.com>
>To: Valery Reznic <valery_rez...@yahoo.com>
>Cc: "linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il" <linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il>
>Sent: Sunday, September 25, 2011 5:38 PM
>Subject: Re: HW/SW for license server
>
>
>4th is 4gb with iPhone autocorrect. Fuck apple.
>
>
>DL1xx is is HP. Check their site.
>
>
>>1000/sec is special
>
>Sent from my iPhone
>
>On Sep 25, 2011, at 12:25, Valery Reznic <valery_rez...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>
>Thank you, Mark.
>>
>>
>>A few more questions:
>>
>> - what is HP DL1xx-class box with 4th ram
>>- 6 request/second is trivial. On each ratio do you think it will need
>>something special?
>>
>>
>>Valery
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>>________________________________
>>>From: Marc Volovic <marcvolo...@me.com>
>>>To: Valery Reznic <valery_rez...@yahoo.com>
>>>Sent: Friday, September 23, 2011 12:03 PM
>>>Subject: Re: HW/SW for license server
>>>
>>>
>>>Dear valery,
>>>
>>>
>>>6 requests per second is trivial. Get the cheapest HP DL1xx-class box with
>>>4th ram and the cheapest CPU you can manage.
>>>
>>>
>>>M
>>>
>>>
>>>Sent from my iPhone
>>>
>>>On Sep 23, 2011, at 11:19, Valery Reznic <valery_rez...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>Hi, All.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>I need to setup license server and looking for advice what
>>>>hardware/software to use
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>General schema is following:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>There are about 20K clients all of them periodically (let say once a week)
>>>>query license server for license via https
>>>>
>>>>I'll try my best to spread all those requests over the week, but in worse
>>>>case scenario all those 20K request can came during 1hour,
>>>>spread relative evenly i.e about 6 request/sec
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>When license server get request it query database ~20K records with 2-3
>>>>small fields, generate license and return it to client.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>License generation is light - md5sum of the very small input ( few hundreds
>>>>bytes)
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>I think use following software for it
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>1. CentOS 6
>>>>
>>>>2. Apache with mod_python
>>>>3. Mysql
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>My questions about software are:
>>>>1. License server software is likely to be written in python, hence
>>>>mod_python.
>>>> If I'll use python as CGI instead of Apache module, will it result in
>>>>significant performance drop?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>2. How configure apache - what is reasonable settings for MaxClient
>>>>parameter?
>>>> Any other important settings?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>3. Use Mysql or Postgres? Or something else?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>Hardware questions are:
>>>>1. What computer should I use for this task
>>>> i386 or x86-64?
>>>> how much memory?
>>>> disk spaces?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>2. What hosting company to buy this server from?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>Do you have any experience or suggestions to share?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>Thank you,
>>>>Valery.
>>>>
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>>>
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