-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 At 08:49 AM 2/26/2003 +0400, you wrote: >Well, we are planning to install a web server and do the hosting >ourselves. The webserver is supposed to be hosts all our >applications developped <snipped>
I run a site that's seeing somewhere between 800,000 and one million hits per day, and it's sitting behind a Soho 3 and is running happily. It's not strained at all -- I wish my router was this reliable. I wouldn't worry about the technical specifications -- RAM matters because the device is building a matrix of all the outstanding connections and it needs RAM to store the data -- you're running out of RAM at about the point when you're hitting 6k connections. Processor speed isn't an issue either -- before I bought a Sonicwall I was running my home network behind a linux-based firewall that was literally running on a pentium-60 and 16M of memory. It ran at line speed (2 Mbit downstream) at maybe 10% CPU utilization at the worst points. If you're going to be looking at specifications, look at the performance specs. The box you're considering can pass 3DES traffic at 20 Mb/s; normal traffic is 75 Mb/s up and down simultaneously. That's just about equivalent to 2 T3's worth of traffic before the box starts to choke. Odds are that'll be plenty. Having said that, I've never seen more than 500 simultaneous connections through my firewall, with an average of maybe 110 at any given time. It makes me wonder how big a site needs to be to scale beyond the 6,000 that the lower-end products use. Wasn't a million hits per day a benchmark a few years ago? :) As an aside, does anyone here have a firewall that NEEDS to support more than 6k simultaneous connections? What kind of usage requires that many connections? _______________________________________ Encrypted e-mail preferred -- key available from: http://www.zeanah.com/dz.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP 8.0 Comment: Encrypted e-mail preferred iQA/AwUBPlxleAStfHGSxzPqEQKl2wCdGIaPIEnWjddPeBa3g4SZzXW08MwAnio9 BB0Ap5212DBNI8WghuwiTY5n =d2VE -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --- [This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude/F-Prot AV] =================================================================================================== To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the body of the email put the following: unsubscribe sonicwall your_name The archive of this list is at http://www.mail-archive.com/sonicwall%40peake.com/
