Re: [cobalt-developers] How many hits can a RaQ 4 have?

["Steve Werby" <steve-lists@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

"W." <w_too@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I would like to know how many hits a Cobalt RaQ 4 and an XTR can have? I
> searched the Sun website here
http://www.sun.com/hardware/serverappliances/
> but I didn't find it. Does anyone know where I could find this?
> Thanks!
> W.

Will, your question is too vague for anyone to give you a meaningful answer.
The number of hits (or pages views) that can be handled depends on many
factors, including visitor usage patterns, how CPU intensive the web pages
are, etc.  Also important are what other services are running on the server
and how it's used and of course RAM, CPU speed and disk I/O.  And it also
depends on what you consider to be acceptable performance.  Based on
discussion with you in February I suspect that your pages are
database-driven.  It's possible to benchmark your site/app under various
scenarios to determine what the server can realistically handle.  And it's
likely you can increase the number of pages served by optimizing Apache,
MySQL (or whatever DB you're using), turning off services and programs you
don't need, etc.  That said, last year one of my clients running an XTR with
maxed out RAM was serving up 9-11 GB per day of static content (I don't
recall the exact daily average) pushing between 200k and 300k pages per day
(no idea what the hit stats were).  I also have plenty of clients with RaQ4s
with inefficient database-driven sites (as in the code and db design could
be improved) which experience poor performance while handling substancially
less pages per day.

HTH.  Feel free to contact me directly if you need assistance with
benchmarking and optimization.

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Steve Werby
President, Befriend Internet Services LLC
http://www.befriend.com/