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by chakravarthy 1 view

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How do we plan for hardware on SUN Platform. Rather any platform.

We are thinking of an e-commerce application witn SUN Solaris server and Java web server.

We are expecting around 10000 hits per day.

I know about how to plan for the bandwidth required for 10,000 hits. But how do I plan for hardware like

No of processors
RAM required

Generally what is the industry standard for calulating the hardware required depending on the no of hits that will be received on the web server ?

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by omaq

Hi, my advice
Put Netra T1 behind a Load Balancer, if you can choose and have enough budget you can but some 450R (2 Processor 2 Gb RAM) linked with a Fiber (1000 Mb) to a SAN system from NetApps to serve the contents. If you need aditional info contact me directly to omaq@encomix.es, Kind regards. I can send to you some maps about that ;-)

by gmathur

Hi,
Ur requirement is not very clear, if u r planning to have web related stuff then check new Sun Cobalt product they r very cost eonomical and specific for the same.
OR
if u r planning to have any customized application then 450 with 2 cpu& 2+GB ram will server the purpose.(for Database appli. u need more ram)

Bye & good luck
Gunjan

by kevin anderson

Put a reverse cache in front of it. The best out there is Novell's ICS. They are now marketing it under the brand name Volera.

www.volera.com

that will drop the load on your web server significantly.

Calculating the hardware is REALLY hard, because it depends. If you put a reverse cache in front of it, and 99% of the data you serve is static, then you only need a smallish pentium running Apache on Linux.

If you're doing database intensive queries for everyone, and handling your own SSL transactions, then you'll want to make a load balancing cluster. Either way, the best thing you can do to keep costs down is check out the cacheing solutions that Volera offers.

Kev.

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