Hey guys: I have an educational site that I will be launching very soon. I am using a dedicated server and a CDN service for progressive download of the educational movies. I am anticipating a max of 1000 unique visitors per day during peak months (vary with the school year). My Set-up is as follows: (1) Asp.net community site with forum and classroom. (2) Class videos are in .flv format and will load in differently according to which program they are watching. (The whole course is about 5GB of data.) (3) My SQL Server 2005 supplies the community data and the links to the videos. (4) The videos are stored with my CDN partner. (Bandwidth can be increased to match demand.) (5) My box can be built to the specs that I need. Finally my question: Can I get away with one (1) high end dedicated server and the CDN service, or should I get multiple boxes? (I would like to avoid the cost of an enterprise SQL license if possible...) Thanks so much for your help! Tim
Hello Tim, You should be fine with just one server - it looks like most of the heavy lifting will be done by the CDN. While the traffic of 1000 uniques per day should hold up fine assuming that the community management software isn't horriby slow/inefficient.
That's great news. Thanks and I'll definitely do a follow up post detailing the results. Thanks again.