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Apache Scaling and Capacity

I have been asked to give hardware requirements to a client of mine for a website we are creating. It will host text with searching, Isometric drawings, 3D graphics that will require a plug-in and lite video/PDF hosting. There will be 1600 concurrent users. It will be Unix servers and the DB back end will be Oracle.

What other information do I need and where can I find the answer for what size servers and how many?

Thanks

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Thanks guys those are some very nice high performance HTTP servers. The problem is the client is going to use what they know and want and I am stuck dealing with it.

I will find out about the possibility of caching the data. As for the 160 verses 1600 don't you capacity plan for the worse case? If so then 1600 people at once pulling the largest most complicated file/data would be the factor to measure against right?

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Thanks guys I contacted a hosting company and they looked it over and hooked me up.

John