April 2017
Intermediate to advanced
470 pages
11h 12m
English
Since the architecture is being designed to scale horizontally, we can add more servers to the setup. We will start by using commodity class, cost-effective hardware.
In order to expect our infrastructure economy, it would be great to make some basic hardware calculations for the first estimation of our exact requirements.
Considering the possibility of experiencing contentions for resources such as CPU, RAM, network, and disk, you cannot wait for a particular physical component to fail before you take corrective action, which might be more complicated.
Let's inspect a real-life example of the impact of underestimating capacity planning. A cloud-hosting company set up two medium servers, one for an e-mail ...
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