Re: Web server

[matthew@sackman.co.uk (Matthew Sackman)]

Depends dramatically on what you want to do with it, how many
clients you've expecting to have and the general design of
your site.

If you arn't running much on that machine (no X) then you should
be able to get away with 64MB of RAM for even very popular sites.

However, if your site uses a lot of perl scripts (or other scripts)
and does a lot of server side parsing, or generates images 'on the
fly' or uses ASP or anything intensive then you will want to up the
RAM to 128MB. If your site is doing all of the above and is large
and very popular (say 1 hit every 20 seconds) and handles e-commerce
and uses some very large databases then you'll need more.

It depends!

Matthew

On Sun, May 20, 2001 at 10:40:48PM +0530, N. Raghavendra wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> We are moving our web server to a new machine.  How much memory
> do people advise for a web server? Also I'd be happy to get
> information and pointers on security.
> 
> Many thanks,
> Raghavendra.
> 
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