HW/SW for license server

[Valery Reznic]

Thanks to all of you for your suggestions.

And shana tova.

Valery




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>From: Marc Volovic <marcvolovic at me.com>
>To: Valery Reznic <valery_reznic at yahoo.com>
>Cc: "linux-il at cs.huji.ac.il" <linux-il at cs.huji.ac.il>
>Sent: Sunday, September 25, 2011 5:38 PM
>Subject: Re: HW/SW for license server
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>4th is 4gb with iPhone autocorrect. Fuck apple. 
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>DL1xx is is HP. Check their site. 
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>>1000/sec is special
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>Sent from my iPhone
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>On Sep 25, 2011, at 12:25, Valery Reznic <valery_reznic at yahoo.com> wrote:
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>Thank you, Mark.
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>>A few more questions:
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>> - what is HP DL1xx-class box with 4th ram
>>- 6 request/second is trivial. On each ratio do you think it will need something special?
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>>Valery
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>>>From: Marc Volovic <marcvolovic at me.com>
>>>To: Valery Reznic <valery_reznic at yahoo.com>
>>>Sent: Friday, September 23, 2011 12:03 PM
>>>Subject: Re: HW/SW for license server
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>>>Dear valery,
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>>>6 requests per second is trivial. Get the cheapest HP DL1xx-class box with 4th ram and the cheapest CPU you can manage. 
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>>>M
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>>>Sent from my iPhone
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>>>On Sep 23, 2011, at 11:19, Valery Reznic <valery_reznic at yahoo.com> wrote:
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>>>Hi, All.
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>>>>I need to setup license server and looking for advice what hardware/software to use
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>>>>General schema is following:
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>>>>There are about 20K clients all of them periodically (let say once a week) query license server for license via https
>>>>
>>>>I'll try my best to spread all those requests over the week, but in worse case scenario all those 20K request can came during 1hour,
>>>>spread relative evenly i.e about 6 request/sec
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>>>>When license server get request it query database ~20K records with 2-3 small fields, generate license and return it to client.
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>>>>License generation is light - md5sum of the very small input ( few hundreds bytes)
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>>>>I think use following software for it
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>>>>1. CentOS 6
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>>>>2. Apache with mod_python
>>>>3. Mysql
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>>>>My questions about software are:
>>>>1. License server software is likely to be written in python, hence mod_python.
>>>>  If I'll use python as CGI instead of Apache module, will it result in significant performance drop?
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>>>>2. How configure apache - what is reasonable settings for MaxClient parameter?
>>>>   Any other important settings?
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>>>>3. Use Mysql or Postgres? Or something else?
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>>>>
>>>>Hardware questions are:
>>>>1. What computer should I use for this task
>>>>    i386 or x86-64?
>>>>   how much memory?
>>>>   disk spaces?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>2. What hosting company to buy this server from?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>Do you have any experience or suggestions to share?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>Thank you,
>>>>Valery.
>>>>
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