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9/12/2008 11:53 AM
 
jeffk

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I have a dedicated server running Windows Server 2008 and MS SQL Server 2008.  The server has 2GB on memory and has a 2.13 Core 2 Duo processor.

How many small low traffic DNN portals can you estimate can be hosted on this box without seeing performance issues?  This is not a loaded question, just want to get an idea.

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9/12/2008 1:52 PM
 
Jeff Cochran


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This can't be answered.  If you have 342K of drive space left, none.  If SQL is on the same system and isn't SQL Express, your performance already sucks.  If you're running on a 28 KBPS bandwidth connection, nobody will bother with any site on your system.  If "low traffic" means one person downloading a 1.2 Gig DVD image, you won't be able to run many sites at all.

Then again, the answer is 42.  It always is.

Jeff
 
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Jeff Cochran wrote
 

If SQL is on the same system and isn't SQL Express, your performance already sucks. 

I respectfully disagree with this statement, I run my websites and SQL Workgroup edition on the same box, and my sites load in under .8 seconds.

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9/12/2008 2:23 PM
 
Jeff Cochran


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FWIW, I just checked and I have 28 DNN sites running on a similar server, but with Server 2003 and SQL on a separate server.  The only performance issue is ASP.NET copiling on first access, and even that's minimal.  Lowest site gets a dozen hits a week, highest is about 350 a week.  19 different DNN installs, the rest are portals.  I have a second server running one DNN install with nine portals, main portal gets about 6,000 hits a day.  Same server specs.  Also no issues.  Both run 15,000 RPM drives in a RAID 5 configuration, 512 MB cache on the array controllers and they are on two bonded T1 links.

That might give you an idea for yours.

Jeff
 
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9/12/2008 3:17 PM
 
jeffk

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You guys seem pretty knowledgeable about this, so what makes more sense in this situation?  I plan on having a single DNN install at first with a growing amount of child and parent portals (starting around 10 and expanding towards 1000 in a few years). 

If these 2 options cost about the same, which configuration makes more sense (assume large hard drive space for both)?

Option 1: 2 dedicated servers each 2GB RAM and 2.13 core 2 duo.  One server is for DNN, and one for SQL Server 2008

Option 2: 1 dedicated server with 4GB RAM, a quad core 2.83 GHz.  This will run both SQL server and DNN

 Thanks for your input!

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