From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 8 07:00:21 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA03690 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 8 Jul 1998 07:00:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ns.insolwwb.net (root@ns.insolwwb.net [206.31.149.200]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA03685 for ; Wed, 8 Jul 1998 07:00:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mgrommet@insolwwb.net) Received: from work2.insolwwb.net (work2.insolwwb.net [208.150.248.12]) by ns.insolwwb.net (8.8.7/8.7.3) with SMTP id IAA12609 for ; Wed, 8 Jul 1998 08:49:30 -0500 (CDT) From: "Mike Grommet" To: Subject: Help Me Spec Out This Machine... Date: Wed, 8 Jul 1998 09:00:59 -0500 Message-ID: <000801bdaa78$d67aa040$0cf896d0@work2.insolwwb.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2173.0 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG A client has come to me and asked me to build them a server that will act as a hefty web server. I've built several web servers, and 3 different primary ISP servers but none of them of this particular size. Basically my client said to me: "I want a server that can potentially handle 1 million hits a day" Well doing a little math, thats approximately 12 hits / second, over a complete even distribution... but thats not likely as most hits will occur during the day and evening and not late night. So, I figure the machine will need to be able to handle approximately 24 hits / second. FreeBSD is my operating system of choice, and I know some of you operate some monster web servers... Is 1 million hits / day a realistic goal for a single machine? Even if it is, I figure to achive this particular goal, I am going to need some top notch components. I've already got the top notch OS, and if anything can handle the load, I would bet money freebsd can. Someone actually made me laugh by suggesting NT for the job. Heh. Could someone who has had to do this before provide: Motherboard make / model CPU Memory given hard drive, etc. Network card? Etc... I really want to know everything about the configuration to make this thing scream. He's a good client and we want to treat him right. I really need a solution that has sort of proven itself in the field. Thanks for all your help guys. Mike Grommet System Admin, and all around nice guy Internet Solutions, Inc. mgrommet@insolwwb.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message