[AuckLUG] LAMP Server requirements

[John Deverall]

Hi Nevyn, 

Thanks for the response. 

I didn't think to consider pre processing? Is that what PHP does? 

The server will probably be hosting a number of Joomla sites, all of
which will be small with possibly 3 users each during busy periods. 

In this way max simultaneous users should start to add up, to say 30
users if we had 10 sites, 90 users if we had 30. 

This is assuming every website was having a busy period at once, the
real number would be lower than this. 

Joomla is a CMS written in PHP (I expect you probably know it) and I
don't know how it would scale. 

I've read that 1.5 is going to be better - but there is no notion of
what that means apart from that they are aiming for the enterprise
market. 

Does this give more of an idea? 







-----Original Message-----
From: aucklug-bounces at linux.net.nz [mailto:aucklug-bounces at linux.net.nz]
On Behalf Of Nevyn
Sent: Friday, 19 January 2007 2:18 a.m.
To: Auckland Linux User Group mailing list
Subject: Re: [AuckLUG] LAMP Server requirements

I suppose the real question here is what's the purpose of the server?
Is it going to be handling the occassional query, simply be a test
machine or be serving up hundreds of pages a minute?

The next question is, how efficient are the pages it's going to be
serving up? How much information is likely to be returned from the
database? Is the entire site going to be reliant on php or is the php
going to be kept to a minimum.

I'd suggest that the reason there's no meaningful information on the
subject is because it's really up to the individual setup.

On 1/18/07, John Deverall <JohnD at ablazesoftware.co.nz> wrote:
> A quick question for those who know.
>
> Does anyone happen to know or have any experience with testing the
> minimum requirements of a LAMP server under different loads?
>
> I've had a bit of a google and found nothing especially useful.
>
> The Apache project advises their hardware requirement to be a "fast
> enough" server with plenty of RAM.
>
> My googling suggests that MySQL would give up before Apache would
under
> a large load but that's not actually what I want to know.
>
> I want more concrete stuff, like am I likely to get away with a cheap
> IBM x330 from trademe? (Pentium 3 class machine)
>
> If I go for a cheapie server at what point will everything start to
fall
> apart on me (probably when a fan or SCSI drive fails out of warranty
but
> I know that already)
>
> I'm wondering if anyone knows the answer load wise.
>
> Thanks,
>
> John
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