HW/SW for license server

[Yedidyah Bar-David]

On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 01:19:51AM -0700, Valery Reznic wrote:
> Hi, All.
> 
> I need to setup license server and looking for advice what hardware/software to use
> 
> 
> General schema is following:
> 
> 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
> 
> When license server get request it query database ~20K records with 2-3 small fields, generate license and return it to client.
> 
> License generation is light - md5sum of the very small input ( few hundreds bytes)
> 
> I think use following software for it
> 
> 
> 1. CentOS 6
> 
> 2. Apache with mod_python
> 3. Mysql

Just a short note - make sure you configure mysql to do query caching.
google for 'mysql query cache'. It wasn't on by default in centos5, I
did not check 6 yet. It has, just as any cache, the potential to improve
performance dramatically.
-- 
Didi