Just my opinion:

If he gets 8 million hits a month, that's about 3 requests/second. Of
coure, you did say uniques. Is that unique sessions, or unique page hits?
If it's unique sessions, and each person averages 5 pages/second, then
you're up to 15 requests/second. Not that this can be answered without
knowing what this site is doing (just static html? asp? aspx? database
stuff? external SQL server?, etc.), it shouldn't be a problem.

My intranet server goes well beyond 15 hits/second at times during the day
(especially when some knucklehead takes down the Exchange server in the
middle of the day), and it does just fine. 20-30% of the pages are ASP with
SQL Server stuff going on; others are .htm. And this server is old... Dual
PIII 500's and 768 MB RAM.

You may want to take a look at
[url]http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=e2c0585a-062a-439e-a67d-75a89aa36495&DisplayLang=en[/url]

Ray at work


"Awah Teh" <awaht@digicentriq.com> wrote in message
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> Good Morning,
> I need help answering this question. I am currently building a site for a
> client on an IIS 5.0 server with ASP technology, and my client anticipates
a
> huge hike in the amount of traffic to the site (due to the purchase
> agreements that they made with their traffic people). This traffic could
> possibly amount to 6-8 MILLION UNIQUES a month.
>
> The configuration of the server where the site will be hosted is as such:
> - 3 GB Ram
> - P4 2.0 GHrtz Pentium Processor
> - A lot of Hard drive space...
>
> My question is, is it possible for this server configuration to
take/handle
> that amount traffic? if no, could we handle that traffic by clustering the
> application over 2 or 3 servers with similar configurations?
>
> Thank you for help in advance.
>
> --
> Awah Teh
> DigicentriQ Technologies, LLC
> [email]awaht@digicentriq.com[/email]
> [url]www.digicentriq.com[/url]
>
>