Bruce Hart wrote:
> Anyway, we're helping an entrepeneur develop a cost model for an Internet
> business and one of his big questions is how much mileage he can
> reasonably
> expect to get out of his web and database servers (before he has to start
> load balancing the web servers and replicating the database
> servers). We're
> leaning toward using dual-processor NT servers (initially one for the web
> server and one for the SQL Server database) and Allaire Cold Fusion for
> database connectivity and potentially for its built-in software load
> balancing capability and Microsoft's IIS 4.0 web server software.
>
> Does anyone have experience making this type of analysis or know of
> existing resources on the web relevant to this type of analysis?
Bruce, if you haven't done so already, you might try one of the developer
forums at http://www.allaire.com for an answer. I have accidentally come
across a number of discussions about load-balancing and scaling there.
Matter of fact (I just checked), there is one forum specifically dedicated
to load-balancing and security.
Jack
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