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I-am-Learning wrote:
What is the minimum server configuration to keep a site like codeproject running for 50,000 simultaneous users.
Nos of procs for the windows server and nos of procs for the Sql Database server and amount of Ram.


That depends on the number of cores on each proc, the amount of RAM and the technology stack the site is built on. It also depends on whether you're virtualising and / or tuning the OS correctly. The disk setup - SAN vs DAS vs local drives plays a huge importance as well as, to an extent, the size of your existing database tables and the caching mechanisms you have in place. You've also asked about "server", not "servers".

The minimum spec for a single server to run each facet of (yes, I'm cheating) CodeProject with current visitor load would be:

1 6-core 16GB web server with, say, 3 virtual web servers.
1 dual proc 12 core SQL server with 64Gb RAM. Bring this down to a single 6-core, 8GB if you start with empty tables.
1 lazy machine with 16GB for running caching using AppFabric. The better you make this, the cheaper you can go on your database server
1 linux based mail forwarder
DNS, AD, Firewall

Double everything up for redundancy.

You could go lower, fairly easily, but I love having headroom.
cheers,
Chris Maunder

The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP

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