Next LUG meet: 12 Oct 2003 around 4 pm - VJTI Computer Centre ------------------------------------------------------------- On 09/10/03 00:25 -0700, Virendra Rode wrote: > I am looking for some hard core technical documentation and articles > which explains how to build a highly scalable standalone linux server > for hosting purposes. It will be running a combination of Billing > Software, Network Monitoring, Security (some form of encryption), Web > Server, Database (mysql and postgres) which could lead to heavy usage. State numeric requirements. How many sites? How many users? How many hits? How much is database driven? How good is your DBA? How much is SSL traffic? ....... Tons of questions :). Your answer could vary from a P 200 with 64 MB of RAM, to a S/390 farm, depending on the numbers you show.
> I know certain queries can be googled but what I am really interested in > is people's recommendation with pointers that talk about lessons learned > from folks who have built heavy duty servers (w/ storage requirements, > raid, ram, processors..etc) for a data center environment. What are your numbers? Oh, and for a mail server the metric is mails/unit time, not number of users. Devdas Bhagat -- http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
