From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 27 10:55:36 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from bsd.alexe.org (slbch-4-m1-19.vnnyca.adelphia.net [24.55.79.19]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 498A737B417 for ; Wed, 27 Mar 2002 10:55:32 -0800 (PST) Received: (from root@localhost) by bsd.alexe.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g2RIwe283342 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 27 Mar 2002 10:58:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from alex) Received: (from alex@localhost) by bsd.alexe.org (8.11.6/8.11.6av) id g2RIwcQ83334 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 27 Mar 2002 10:58:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from alex) Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2002 10:58:38 -0800 From: Alex Obradovic To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: help with crafting enterprise FreeBSD solution Message-ID: <20020327185838.GF82565@montenegro.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.27i X-Editor: Vim http://www.vim.org/ X-Info: http://www.alexe.org X-Operating-System: FreeBSD/4.5-STABLE (i386) X-Uptime: 10:48AM up 4 days, 1:45, 5 users, load averages: 0.09, 0.13, 0.08 X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS perl-11 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I am trying to make a proposal that would use FreeBSD servers instead of Windows 2000 servers for a large corporation's web site. What type of FreeBSD configuration would I need to make to handle the following: * Typical peak web visitors per day: 11,000 * Typical max simultaneous users around 3,000 performing *transactions* at any time * max web site load (non-transactional pages) of at least 50,000 simultaneous users hitting a group of just a few specific web pages (that can be cached). My Questions: -How many FreeBSD web/application/database/firewall servers do I need in order to handle this load -Would there be a need for clustering/failover schemes? Is that possible with FreeBSD? -How would I implement Load Balancing? Would I need additional hardware for this? -Can a FreeBSD with ipfw successfully replace Cisco PIX firewalls? -Finally, are there some good URL's that show FreeBSD load statistics for some major sites such as yahoo.com? Thanks! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message