requirements for privately hosting an asp.net website
I have developed an asp.net 3.5 website. the client wants to have it hosted in his office building becauase its information is very confidential.
I have asked a network person and he has given the attached requirements and respective costs(see attached file). I have a fealing this is very expensive.
Is there a cheaper, easy to implement and secure method of implementing this.
Anthony
I have asked a network person and he has given the attached requirements and respective costs(see attached file). I have a fealing this is very expensive.
Is there a cheaper, easy to implement and secure method of implementing this.
Anthony
Network Requirements
The choice for workloads requiring zero application downtime and extreme scalability
The HP Integrity NonStop BladeSystem NB54000c delivers twice the scalability and nearly twice the performance capacity in the same data center footprint
NB54000c Server
Technical specifications Estimated cost
Processors Intel Itanium 9300 series quad core
Cost: $7,000.00
Processors per node 2 to 16
Cores per node 8 to 64
Processors per cluster up to 4080
Memory per CPU 48 GB
Memory per node 768 GB
Internal HDD SAS 146 GB, 300 GB
FC 300 GB
Enterprise Storage HP P9500
XP24000
XP20000
Dimensions 42U;
199.9 x 118.5 x 60.96 cm
Other Requirements
Operating System Windows 2003/2008 (32/64 bit) Enterprise Edition: cost: $2,000.00
Licenses Basic Licenses (5) for windows and terminal licenses for the connections. @82 for additional
Security Kerio WinRoute Firewall integrated with McAfee antivirus to on e-Policy Orchestrator in a Server environment cost:$5,000.00
Network Switch 3750x Manageable switch preferably Cisco manageable switches cost:$4,000.00
External Power A good UPS which can provide backup power for the server and other associated equipment. cost:$1,000.00
Labour charges Configuration and all the installations cost:$800.00
Well, it depends on your web-application. How many clients are connected, what type of data is stored and load of processor for read-write ...
ASKER
The application/website will serve not more than 80 people and less than 10 persons will be logged on at the same time.
It will be dedicated to this application. I am trying to put as much security features in the application as i can.
In its life it cannot reach 200mb (the database). it is running on sql server 2005
What SKU mean?
Thank you
It will be dedicated to this application. I am trying to put as much security features in the application as i can.
In its life it cannot reach 200mb (the database). it is running on sql server 2005
What SKU mean?
Thank you
ASKER
It will be for read and write (with much write which comes especially towards the end of each month)
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The SGL Server will be hosted in the same serve.
Anthony
Anthony
OK, even then you won't need to much larger of a server since you are talking about such a low impact application but, SQL will be an additional license cost that wasn't account for above (unless you use SQL express).
If this is just a singe web application that requires IIS and you expect to have a relatively low amount of traffic you can certainly get by a lot cheaper than $19,000 (if I added that all up right).
Some organizations simply have pre-defined SKU's for servers they deploy and this may be the "lowest" end they have but even then it seems on the high side from a cost perspective.
Other things to consider are will you load balance the server and what type of growth do you expect in the future.