server-hardware

How do you determine the hardware needed for a server?

Hi, i would to know how do you determine the hardware needed for a server?, now i have a DB Server in MySQL, now i want to buy a server, but i don't know what is the hardware that i need. This is a server for a web page. EDIT: The software it's just MySQL Server ...

Is it excessive to own server hardware?

Since there is a large pool of passionate developers in this community, I would like to gather your opinions on this matter - do you think it is excessive, or advantageous, to purchase and operate actual server hardware at home to spice your own development and learning efforts? Back in 2003/4 when I jumped into the development line, I ...

Hardware requirements for .net Application in Production server

I have developed my ASP.net application with SQL Server 2005 which as installed version of .net Framework 2.0. Please some one suggest what are the hardware requirements (windows server) to host in Production server and its configuration to host the application. The total number of users around 10,000 per second around 10,000 requests...

Advice on setting up a server to host source code and other documents...

Hi, today we keep our documents and source code, using subversion, on a server hosted by another company out on the internet. This has worked well so far. However, we have now gotten an office and would like to keep all the documents in-house. Now, are there any general advice for how to set up a system with a NAS-unit running Subversion...

How many socket connections possible?

Has anyone an idea how many tcp-socket connections are possible on a modern standard root server? (There is in general less traffic on each connection, but all the connections have to be up all the time.) EDIT: We will use a Linux Server. ...

How to program hardware performance counters

I've been dealing with this problem for my thesis. The goal is to develop a .net server monitoring tool specifically for windows 2K8 servers. So far, all I can access are software performance counters. Meaning those that are available through perfmon and the WMI classes. But then there's also the issue that I need to be able to monitor ...

Setting up dedicated build PC - suggestions needed

Hello, we are thinking about buying and setting up a new PC to use as a nightly build PC. We are planning to install Visual C++ 2005/2008, SVN etc. However we need to compile our app: for 32 and 64 bit on 2 different linux distros so we think we can setup a Windows Xp/7 and use VMWare to run linuxes. But how to build for 32 and 64 ...

web service that can withstand with 1000 concurrent users with response in 25 millisecond

Hello Team, Our client requirement is to develop a WCF which can withstand with 1-2k concurrent website users and response should be around 25 milliseconds. This service reads couple of columns from database and will be consumed by different vendors. Can you suggest any architecture or any extra efforts that I need to take while devel...

Server Costs for a Computing-Intense Application?

Hi, I have a scientific application that I built in Python (the application's 'critical areas' are optimized with Cython, for increased speed). Every instance of the application is given a text file (with parameters) an an input. The application reads the parameters from the text file and, using data that is stored in the hard drive, r...