I just purchased a Dual Xeon 3.0 Ghz . I want to run a Invision Power Board forum on it around 1000 are online at any instant ...how mcuh can this server handle the load should i take one more mysql server or should i have on mysql on same server need a good advice
if it's already up, why not check the status of the server? real-life-tests are going to be more accurate than any guessing. from there you may need to tweak things (httpd.conf, my.cnf). if tweaking doesn't work it's time for another upgrade-- which would likely be a seperate database server.