Hi
Re: Capacity Planning
I have a nice project on a 3 year contract.
We will be developing a web site to be used by 60 schools.
There will be 1 domain name used for the school, for arguments sake lets
say "schools.com" and
this will be sectioned off per school with the same pages for each
school. + each school will also have there own .edu domain for email and
email for school.com domain
So it will be main page, school1, section1, section2, section3 and
School2, section1, section2, section3 etc upto school 60 and could be 20
sections per school
60 Schools x 400 pupils per school
Each school has 10Mb link to Internet ( lets say they only have 20
computers per school)
400 x 60 email addresses are required of .edu addresses 24,000 addresses
+ teachers addresses
400 x 60 email addresses are required for .com addresses 24,000
addresses+ teachers addresses
(I can write scripts to setup email accounts imported from text files in
batches)
I was thinking of running Linux 6.1, Coldfusion 4.5 and MySQL for the
database
(I could run clustercats and spread the load over multiservers for
Coldfusion - is this likely to be necessary)
Apache 1.3.6 for the web server
Sendmail 8 for email
There is of course day time usage and evening usage for pupils doing
homework etc.....
Parents may also connect for information + the internet could bing in
other users
(there may also be a chat area)
My question is how many email pop boxes can I put on 1 server?
How many concurrent connetctions will a server cope with for http
requests?
(Say the server is a PIII 700 512Mb Memory Hardware RAID)
Anyone any ideas on this, or could point me in the right direction.
Many Thanks
Tony
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