Date: Tue, 26 Oct 1999 18:48:56 -0600 From: Ben Schumacher <bs@cyalchemy.com> To: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.org Subject: FreeBSD Server Hardware Configuration Question. Message-ID: <4.2.0.58.19991026182732.00989a80@mail.cyalchemy.com>
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Hello- I am working on a project in my company where we will need to be able to handle large amounts of traffic on a web server we are setting up. Basically, we estimate about 75,000 visitors a day with roughly five 20k page views each, which makes roughly 7.5GB of data a day. Most of the pages we'll be offering on this site are static, but access to the site will be need to be verified through a database of say 750,000 customers. What I need is an idea of a good hardware configuration of (most likely) 2 machines that would be able to handle this much potential traffic. I've had a lot of experience with FreeBSD and think that it would be the best solution for this, running a combination of Apace and MySQL, but I need to know what I can do on the hardware side to support it. I guess what I really need is a good idea of what is necessary to make these machines powerful and responsive. I think the best solution for the web server would be a powerful P3 Xeon server, using a hardware RAID system with at least 1GB of RAM. The database server, on the other hand, I'm a little more unsure about. I haven't had enough experience with MySQL to know what keeps to running fast and smooth. I figure that it probably relies heavily on drive speed and RAM, but how important are issues like having a large L2 cache on the processor? One last thing. We're looking at getting the server equipment from one of the big vendors (Dell, Micron, etc), but while searching the archives that Del''s PERC RAID controller is not support (or was not) by FreeBSD, any world on when/if it will be? I know that Micron's is support (since Walnut Creek uses it). What are some other hardware RAID solutions available and from which vendors could I get them from? I would really appreciate any information you could provide me. - Ben Schumacher To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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