Server requirements

[Anon]

Does anyone have any information on server sizing for PHP/MySQL?

E.g. what kind of processor, how much RAM do I need to serve a site where every page is dynamic and requires several database lookups, and I expect about 1m hits/month?

[Anon]

One of the nice things about GNU/Linux is that you can get a lot from very little. My dev server is a lowly P200 with 32mb of RAM and it benchmarks favourably against my colleague's PIII 733 Win2000 server with 256mb RAM 🙂

1m/hits a month is getting to the busy side of things though.. I wouldn't want to trust it to anything below, say, a PIII/866 with 512MB RAM. For reliabilty and scalability's sake, though, perhaps seperate web and database servers would be a good idea.

All IMHO 🙂

Grendel

[Anon]

I agree, at 1M hits/month, you should have separate db and web servers, and should probably design your apps to be load balanceable (i.e. data only stored in a central datatbase, not local text files etc...)

If you split the boxes out, you can use a fast box for the db, and any old PII 400 for the front end should do just fine.