[Zope] Server Sizing

[J. Atwood]

Oh boy... 10 Grand?

IBM Netfinity 5500 M20

- Dual 700 MHz
- 5 x 9.1 GB RAID 5
- 2 GB RAM
- Dual NIC Cards
- RH 6.1 

Should be about 10 Grand. That thing is ROCK SOLID. It could eat 100
Concurrent users without a napkin. Can handle up to 4 GB RAM, 120+ GB of
Drive and 4 Processors. Almost everything is hot swappable (power, fan, PCI)
only time you would have to bring it down would be to so you could take it
home.

The other way to go would be to get 2 x Netfinity 5000 (Dual 700 MHz, 1 GB
RAM, 3 x 9.1 GB RAID 5). Load balance them and you are golden.

Enjoy...

JMA






> From: "Baker, Dennis (sjmr)" <DBaker@CHW.edu>
> Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 15:00:51 -0800
> To: "'zope@zope.org'" <zope@zope.org>
> Subject: [Zope] Server Sizing
> 
> Ok,  I finally did it.  I got my boss to slip a nice little application
> server in the budget.  So here I am trying to spec out a nice Zope server.
> 
> What should my priorities be when building this beast,  I think we'll be
> able to spend about $10 Grand on this beast.  We will be running a secure
> site using Apache and OpenSSL,  and we are targeting about 100 continuous
> concurrent users.  I have already set SOME priorities, because uptime is a
> big issue so the server will have redundant power supplies and hardware RAID
> 5.  
> 
> Beyond that,  what do you suggest.  Is memory more important than processor
> speed?  Is it important to go with a Multi-processor server or will Zope/
> Linux take advantage of a multi processor setup?
> 
> 
> Dream a little server for me :)
> 
> 
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