RE: Hardware specs for new cluster

Same here, 90% of the content served is dynamic.  Still the 4 dual xeon
servers are coping fine.

The beauty of the systems is that when the stress on the cluster gets to
high you can always add cluster nodes.  Provided there is a budget of
course ...


On Mon, 2006-09-11 at 16:04 -0700, Bryn Moslow wrote:
> Thanks for the input. My biggest concern is that we have almost no static web content other than images. Sounds like I just need to worry about the web servers themselves. Currently I'm planning on 6 Opteron boxes with 4GB RAM and two similar machines as lb's. 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jochen Billen [Smartbit]
> Sent: Monday, September 04, 2006 2:23 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: Hardware specs for new cluster
> 
> Hi,
> 
> We are running a LAMP cluster doing 15 million hits/day and about
> 90GBytes/day.  The cluster consists of 2 redundant Ultramonkey
> loadbalancers and 4 dual Xeon webservers.
> 
> The loadbalancers are single P4 servers with 256 MB memory each.  The
> webservers are dual Xeon with 2GB memory each.  The cluster is coping
> perfect with this kind of traffic.  Not anyway near their limit.
> Loadbalancer load for example is reading 0.14, 0.11, 0.09 and cpu usage
> is not even mentionable.
> 
> Regards,
> Jochen Billen
> 
> 
> On Fri, 2006-08-25 at 14:02 -0700, Bryn Moslow wrote:
> > I'm putting together a new web cluster based on Debian LAMP
> > servers and Ultramonkey and I need something that's going to handle:
> >  
> > 4 million sessions/day
> > 25 million pageviews/day
> > 40 million hits/day
> > 250 GBytes/day
> >  
> > The index page is around 230KB and is around 50% of the daily traffic
> > (pageviews).
> >  
> > Is anyone running a cluster in this ballpark? I'd really like to know
> > what hardware you're using.
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