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- >Date: Wed, 16 Jun 1993 15:11:30 +1200
- >From: Nathan Torkington <Nathan.Torkington@vuw.ac.nz>
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- >
- >For my proposal that's going to the committee here (I'm soon going
- to
- >make all my CWIS documents available for public review via our WWW
- >server -- I wrote them in HTML so it shouldn't be too hard to serve
- >them :-) I need some estimates of the hardware to run a dedicated
- WWW
- >server off.
- >
- >We will have about 10,000 users (hopefully :-) and I hope for
- >relatively high usage. Can anyone suggest a suitable platform?
- >
- >Nat.
-
- In fact, the load on an HTTP server machine is very slight,
- because the process only runs as long as it takes to return
- the document. The info.cern.ch server which has the Subject
- Catalogue gets probably a relatively high usage, about
- 10k requests a day, or (thinks...) one every 9 seconds.
- the CPU load is negligible. In fact of course the peak rate
- is higher, but still its not really a factor.
-
- So I would recommend that you chose the platform as one
- which has good *reliability*, one which your operators will
- know how to back up and handle in an emergency, one with
- good connectivity (like ability to mount appleshare and
- Novell stuff might be useful).
-
- A greater load than the httpd server will occur if
- you allow telnet sessions to www or lynx, of course.
- If you allow people to telnet in and select XMosaic
- to their Xterminal, then you'd better get something
- really beefy!
-
- Remember to allow lots of disk room for logs.
-
- Tim
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