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web server capacity
LockedI appreciate that it will in the main depend on the web site, but as a general rule of thumb how many simultaneous users should a web server support ?? The servers in question are IBM 6000R’s with 4 x p3 xenon 700mhz processors and 2gb of ram, running 2000 advanced server and (obviously) IIS 5 – with the traffic shared between them via windows load balancing. The site uses a lot of asp, and pulls data from a local sql db (which does not appear to be a bottleneck). Both sql and web files are stored on exterior disks (IBM xp300 cabinets)via raid cards. the company want 6000 users to be able, all at once, to use the site with acceptable response times – but at the moment anything over 4000 is dying. If you can give some comments on the setup then that’s great, but if not then a general rule of thumb based on your own experience would be appreciated….. The points will be shared amongst the best answers !!