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4/6/2008 8:40 AM
 

I'm curious how many servers does it take to support the 500,000+ registered users on the DotNetNuke.com website.

Is the site in a load balanced environment using many web servers? Likewise, how about databases?

Any info available about this?

 
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4/6/2008 10:43 PM
 

I don't have the exact setup, but we run dotnetnuke.com on quite modest hardware (from www.maximumasp.com) . For a long time we simply had 1 webserver and 1 database server (though both were mult-core with generous amounts of ram), and we've been transitioning to 2 front-end webservers setup via our supported webfarm scenario (detailed in doc @ http://www.dotnetnuke.com/Resources/Documentation/DownloadableFiles/tabid/478/Default.aspx). I'm not sure if this has finished or not, sorry I can't offer any more detail.

Cathal


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4/7/2008 9:22 AM
 

DonnyBrasco ;-P wrote

I'm curious how many servers does it take to support the 500,000+ registered users on the DotNetNuke.com website.

And outside of curiosity, this number really has no bearing on any other sites.  Each site would be different.  500,000 registered users doesn't indicate any traffic counts or server loads.  And a "server" could be a single processor 1.2 MHz system with 1 Gig of RAM or a quad processor, with quad-core CPU's and 32 GB of RAM.  Significant performance differences, yet both are "One server."  The only way to manage a high-volume site's hardware is through routine monitoring and performance baselining.

Besides, I'd bet their move to web farm technology has as much to do with marketing strategy as it does with practical applications.  And server redundancy may be more related to disaster recovery or deployment issues than to performance issues.

Jeff

 
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4/17/2008 11:52 AM
 

Right - understood...thank you both for your comments.

Helpful indeed.

 
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