OK, so a site that's only in the tens of thousands of hits per day range should be no sweat. What about the Linux server to put under it? Am I wrong to think that a single processor and 256meg should do the trick?
Chris
Hi Chris, I think it's impossible to give a general recommendation. There are some factors which need to be taken into account and which are very project specific. - ten thousand hits a day are in most cases not distributed uniformly across the day. For instance we have a site which gets hit like hell when people come into their offices in the morning, - Response time matters. We are working on a zope project where all menus are built dynamically by iterating through zclasses in a folder. Everything is quite modular. When benchmarking this on a relativly slow (PII-350 + 64mb) Server I got 4 hits a second, *but* max. answer times between 1 and 2 seconds. - There's the possibility of using a reverse proxy. I configured apaches mod proxy with the above mentioned setup and got 500 hits/second on the same hardware. But this kind of caching my not always be feasible. cheers, oliver