hi ya
you can try to do a stress test on your server from the outside world
and see if its response time is still acceptable
or simple way...
- when yur ids/monitoring tools says that the server doesnt
exist or doesnt respond... you know its too heavily loaded
and it'd be time to make "www" into a cluster of loadsharing
servers
c ya
alvin
http://www.Linux-Sec.net/Audit
apache/ab -n 100000 www.uprint.com/index.html
- change the random number
or try other tools
http://sourceforge.net/projects/deluge
http://hammerhead.sourceforge.net/
http://freshmeat.net/projects/ptester/
http://joedog.org/siege/
On 18 Jan 2002, Matt Fair wrote:
> Hello,
> I have a Dell PIII 800 MHz with 256 Meg Ram running debian and apache,
> along with mysql and sendmail. I have a redundant t1 connection to this
> server.
> I have a website that gets about 800000 hits per month and transfers
> about 8403274 KB per month.
> The site gets an average of about 922 Hits per hour (average of 22139
> hits per day) the daily transfer rate is an average of 233,424 KB per
> day.
> My question is how much can I take on my server?
> When would it be good to get a new server to take the load.
> Should I get a load balancer and balance it out between several servers?
> We could expect the hits to grow as large as 3 Million within the next
> few months.
> Thanks,
