Project Deployment

Rahmon

Hello guys,

I am about to deploy a project that will accomodate a minimum of 4000 hits at any point in time from the internet. People are expected to save to an Oracle database and place images on a web server(Both servers are runing Linux). In other words, we are talking of 2 different servers; A db server and web server.

As a result, I have some issues to be considered and will appreciate if you guys can assist.

The issues:

a. What type of server specifications should I be looking at? The RAM, processors speed and number for each machine?

b. Will it be advisable for me to allow saving of images into the oracle database(using blob)? If yes, what are the downsides? or are there none?

Will appreciate your responses.

Regards.

onion2k

When you say "a minimum of 4000 hits at any point in time", do you mean you're anticipating 4000 hits a second?

Rahmon

Yes. It may be upto that or not. All am trying to do is to create enough resources to accomodate the traffic.

onion2k

Originally posted by Rahmon
Yes. It may be upto that or not. All am trying to do is to create enough resources to accomodate the traffic.

So, assuming thats peak rate traffic, and normally its about 1/4 of that.. you're expecting your site to have about 8 million hits a day?

Yikes.

One web server and one db server won't be enough.

Rahmon

OK. Thanks for that. How many web and db servers should I be looking at? And what do you think the specifications of each will be.

I really appreciate your responses.