HW/SW for license server

[Marc Volovic]

4th is 4gb with iPhone autocorrect. Fuck apple. 

DL1xx is is HP. Check their site. 

>1000/sec is special

Sent from my iPhone

On Sep 25, 2011, at 12:25, Valery Reznic <valery_reznic at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Thank you, Mark.
> 
> A few more questions:
>  - 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?
> 
> Valery
> 
> 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
> 
> Dear valery,
> 
> 6 requests per second is trivial. Get the cheapest HP DL1xx-class box with 4th ram and the cheapest CPU you can manage. 
> 
> M
> 
> Sent from my iPhone
> 
> On Sep 23, 2011, at 11:19, Valery Reznic <valery_reznic at yahoo.com> 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
>> 
>> 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?
>> 
>> 2. How configure apache - what is reasonable settings for MaxClient parameter?
>>    Any other important settings?
>> 
>> 3. Use Mysql or Postgres? Or something else?
>> 
>> 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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