Calculating the Number of Users a Server Can Support
Now that some of the most standard hardware configurations have been presented and discussed, the next question that needs to be answered is how many users can a SharePoint 2003 server support. To answer this question, the type of use the server or server farm will get needs to be better defined.
The Windows SharePoint Services 2.0 Administrator's Guide provides a definition of different levels of user activity and also provides information on the number of users who can be supported by different web servers and database server combinations.
Per the Windows SharePoint Services 2.0 Administrator's Guide, a general rule of thumb can be used:
One transaction per second maps to 1,000 users. This ...
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