Re: Which is More Powerful

Hello,
"Thank You" for your reply.
I'm looking to apply experiment, techniques and theories, until my budget is
ready.
I want tie the DL's together (Parallel Cluster), and use the 5500 as the
fail-over, if 1 of the DL's fail.

I want to try cascading cluster, with the 5500 as the fail-over.

I want to try NLB (Network Load Balancing) the three together.


I want the servers to work together, in the above configurations. I will be
hosting the site myself. I will be using a 3Com network configuration.
As for web apps, ASP and CGI. No additional non-services app services or
server services will be running. The databases for the web servers will sit
on other servers. I have a T1 line. I am looking to test for security
gaps/holes. I am looking to reduce points of failure. I do expect an extreme
amount of hits per day. As for the company's intranet, that's on another set
of servers. No company internal apps will run on these servers. These
servers will host web site only. I'm looking to find and test the "best"
possible configuration...



Thank you,


Charles L. Phillips


"Ace Fekay [MVP]" <PleaseAskMe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Charles L. Phillips <tptbusines_2005@xxxxxxxxxxx> typed:
Hello,
I have the following:

1. Compaq Proliant 5500, Quad Xeon Processors at 733 MHz and 1 Gig of
RAM.
2. 1 Compaq Proliant DL580, Dual PIII-733 MHz and 1 Gig of RAM.

3. 1 Compaq Proliant DL380, Dual PIII-733 MHz and 1 Gig of RAM.

Which of the 3 computers is more powerful for web hosting? What is the
"best" practice for configuring the 3 systems for web hosting??



Thank you,


Charles L. Phillips

I would say door #1. The quad obviously has more resources with the 4
CPUs. However, these machines are quite dated. If you want or need
something to run the more current apps and features more efficiently, I
would suggest, if the budget agrees, to update them to a more current
machine, at least within 2 years old.

Best practice for a web server? Or for NLB (Network Load Balancing) the
three together? There is much to web hosting. Too much to discuss here,
and I'm not sure exactly what you're intentions are regarding these
servers. Do you want to pick the best and dump the other two on eBay or
something? Or do you want them to work together? Will you be hosting them
at your site or elsewhere? What type of line? Firewall? What type of web
apps will they run? ASP CGI? Do you expect numerous hits such as what
Microsoft's site gets per day or something just for the company intranet?
What else will be on the machines? Will they be running apps that internal
users be using? Will they run other services, such as FTP, SMTP, etc?

So you see, there is much to this question. Basically and depending on
the size of the company, it's usually recommended to host it elsewhere
such as with a web hosting company to relieve the overhead of your
resources, line speed being eaten up by web hits, etc, etc.

Maybe if you can elaborate, we can focus on your scenario to better assist
what is good for YOU.

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Regards,
Ace

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Ace Fekay, MCSE 2003 & 2000, MCSA 2003 & 2000, MCSE+I, MCT,
MVP Microsoft MVP - Directory Services
Microsoft Certified Trainer

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