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suggestions 4 building svr to host file downloads.
I'm looking at buying a server and needed a some external input. The server
will run on Win2k server and will be used to host a web site that allows users to dowload files, some small(1mb), some large(50mb). This will run on IIS and the downloads will be transfered via HTTP, not FTP. I wanted some suggestions on what hardware would suit this purpose best. I'm thinking of a pentium with SCSI raid 5 HDDs and 1gb of ECC memory. Are there any other suggestions. Is the ECC memory worth it. Thanks for the help. john |
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On Mon, 22 Sep 2003 22:57:17 GMT, "-|Turbosyde|-" wrote:
I'm looking at buying a server and needed a some external input. The server will run on Win2k server and will be used to host a web site that allows users to dowload files, some small(1mb), some large(50mb). This will run on IIS and the downloads will be transfered via HTTP, not FTP. I wanted some suggestions on what hardware would suit this purpose best. I'm thinking of a pentium with SCSI raid 5 HDDs and 1gb of ECC memory. Are there any other suggestions. Is the ECC memory worth it. Thanks for the help. john How many users at a time will be connecting, and what speed of connection will you have to the internet. How many files will be available for down load, and what sizes? There are excel spread sheets available for sizing based on these estimates. Also, what degree of up time do you need? That will determine if you need RAID 5. Might also consider something like SATA RAID 1. Also, if all you are doing is file downloading, why not a Linux system running apache, and save yourself $800 and get a performance boost in the process? Even if you need ASP and Front Page extensions, those are available. Win2kServer has its place, but for a single purpose web server, Linux probably makes more sense. |
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I agree linux might make sense but i have no experience with it, and the
server will be deployed shortly, too soon to learn a new OS. Its a task i'm going to undertake soo though. As for users there will probably 6-12 at a time to start. i might use SATA raid 1, thats a good idea since they are the same price as ide now. we will host a couple hundred files most less than 1 mb but a few that are 10-50mb. It'll be on an OC3 pipe at our ISPs colo. thanks for the tips, any more? john "JT" datacare@localhost wrote in message s.com... On Mon, 22 Sep 2003 22:57:17 GMT, "-|Turbosyde|-" wrote: I'm looking at buying a server and needed a some external input. The server will run on Win2k server and will be used to host a web site that allows users to dowload files, some small(1mb), some large(50mb). This will run on IIS and the downloads will be transfered via HTTP, not FTP. I wanted some suggestions on what hardware would suit this purpose best. I'm thinking of a pentium with SCSI raid 5 HDDs and 1gb of ECC memory. Are there any other suggestions. Is the ECC memory worth it. Thanks for the help. john How many users at a time will be connecting, and what speed of connection will you have to the internet. How many files will be available for down load, and what sizes? There are excel spread sheets available for sizing based on these estimates. Also, what degree of up time do you need? That will determine if you need RAID 5. Might also consider something like SATA RAID 1. Also, if all you are doing is file downloading, why not a Linux system running apache, and save yourself $800 and get a performance boost in the process? Even if you need ASP and Front Page extensions, those are available. Win2kServer has its place, but for a single purpose web server, Linux probably makes more sense. |
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How many users will you have in a year? 3 years? Don't build it for what
you have today at the beginning of its life. Build it so you won't be upgrading in a month. For Example, 12 users downloading at the same time with 1mb/s cable connections is only a load of 12mb/s, which almost any machine can handle. Bring that up to 100, and you max out a 100tx Full Duplex connection. More than that and you need gigabit, and probably a cluster, which gets very expensive with Win2k Secondly, you might want to look into one of the webserver appliances setup with linux out of the box, or go for one of the server oriented Linux distros. To set up a web server even with SSL security will not take you more than a weekend to learn. For example on Mandrake, if you tell it that it is a web server install, it will install only those packages, and then the rest is easy to set up. You can still use MS tools like frontpage to build the web pages. Another alternative, if you want to stick with MS is to get Win2k3 Web Edition. http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserv...rview/web.mspx Cost effective, less unneeded junk. On Tue, 23 Sep 2003 16:44:32 GMT, "-|Turbosyde|-" wrote: I agree linux might make sense but i have no experience with it, and the server will be deployed shortly, too soon to learn a new OS. Its a task i'm going to undertake soo though. As for users there will probably 6-12 at a time to start. i might use SATA raid 1, thats a good idea since they are the same price as ide now. we will host a couple hundred files most less than 1 mb but a few that are 10-50mb. It'll be on an OC3 pipe at our ISPs colo. thanks for the tips, any more? john "JT" datacare@localhost wrote in message ws.com... On Mon, 22 Sep 2003 22:57:17 GMT, "-|Turbosyde|-" wrote: I'm looking at buying a server and needed a some external input. The server will run on Win2k server and will be used to host a web site that allows users to dowload files, some small(1mb), some large(50mb). This will run on IIS and the downloads will be transfered via HTTP, not FTP. I wanted some suggestions on what hardware would suit this purpose best. I'm thinking of a pentium with SCSI raid 5 HDDs and 1gb of ECC memory. Are there any other suggestions. Is the ECC memory worth it. Thanks for the help. john How many users at a time will be connecting, and what speed of connection will you have to the internet. How many files will be available for down load, and what sizes? There are excel spread sheets available for sizing based on these estimates. Also, what degree of up time do you need? That will determine if you need RAID 5. Might also consider something like SATA RAID 1. Also, if all you are doing is file downloading, why not a Linux system running apache, and save yourself $800 and get a performance boost in the process? Even if you need ASP and Front Page extensions, those are available. Win2kServer has its place, but for a single purpose web server, Linux probably makes more sense. |
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