October 1998
Intermediate to advanced
374 pages
12h 6m
English
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Sample Configurations
Here are a few tried-and-true configurations that have good performance relative to the cost of the setup. Beware that prices are volatile and these examples are only approximate.
Low Volume
A low-volume site gets one to ten thousand hits per day. Such a site can easily be run out of your home. A typical configuration for this level is good PC hardware ($2000) running Linux 2.0 (free), Apache 1.2.6 (free), with connectivity through a cable modem with 100kbps upstream ($100 per month). For database functionality, you may use flat files, or read all of the elements into a Perl hashtable or array in a CGI, and not see any performance problems for a moderate number of users if the database is smaller than, say, one thousand items. Once you start getting more than one hit per second, or when the database gets bigger than one thousand items or has multiple tables, you may want to move to the mSQL free relational database from http://www.hughes.com.au/. The database and connectivity are the weak links here. Apache and Linux, on the other hand, are capable of handling large sites.
Medium Volume
A medium volume site gets ten thousand to a million hits per day. A typical configuration for a medium volume site is a Sun Ultra or an Intel Pentium Pro machine with 64MB for the operating system and filesystem buffer overhead plus 2 to 4MB per server process. Of course, more memory is better if you can afford it. Such workstation-class machines cost anywhere between $3,000 ...
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