I'm mildly savvy with networks and server administration but on a small scale.
I've never actually dealt with large-scale servers / load balancing and such.
Bare with me there are just a couple questions here.
1.) Hypothetical: I have 2,000 clients (using different domain names that all lead back to my server) that will be using the same set of template files (but dynamically changing colors, layout etc as per client). Is it just the same to have 2,000 clients use the same files on my server as it would be to have them all divide their own sets of the same files on the server ?
2.) If we're going to host the email as well, should we put that on a separate machine or does it not matter?
3.) Is there a type of equation for ball-park figures on what I'd need in a server? If I just ball-parked page views, estimated size per page view, and amount of clients... Is there a way to kind of determine how powerful a machine I should buy? (Talking about total ball-parking here... Doesn't need to be specific, just in some sort of range)
4.) What kind of requirements should I be searching for? Just the fastest computers possible? Most RAM possible? Decent computers but a lot of them with load balancers? Can you sacrifice an extremely fast line for multiple servers? What kind of line would I even be wanting anyway when I'm server shopping?
I know these are pretty general questions, but you don't have to go into super great detail cause I know with all these questions you could probably write a book about each. I don't need to be at the doorstep, but general answers to put me in the right neighborhood would be great.
Thanks a lot!!
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