Why Win2K Server? If you want to stick with Windows, save some money and go with just Win2K Professional. Unless this machine is doing something else in addition to Apache and Tomcat I don't know of any advantage in going with the Server edition.
Why RAID-0? Disk performance really shouldn't be that much of an issue once classes have been loaded by Tomcat. RAID-0 increases the chances of a failure. RAID-5, RAID-10, RAID-1, or no RAID at all would be safer choices. As to CPU choice/quantity, that really depends on the load that you expect. How many concurrent requests do you think you will see? It also depends quite a bit on the application itself. Have you benchmarked your application on anything? I would create a test routine and hit the development machine to see how much of a load it can handle -- then you can use that to get an idea of how much hardware you need. -----Original Message----- From: Paul [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 13, 2003 1:35 PM To: Tomcat Users List Subject: hardware recommendation, Tomcat with Apache web server what would be appropriate hardware for a Tomcat with Apache web server running on Win2k server (for a public OLTP-type web service with database backend running on its own dedicated machine)? probably use striped (raid-0) scsi drive system, but not sure if dual cpu's required, P3, P4 or Zeon system would be appropriate? -paul lomack --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
