Testing a server
Hello,
Hope everyone is doing well.
I recently built a CentOS 5.2 webserver on a Dell Poweredge machine -- Pentium III with 512 MB ram. It's going to be serving pages through a 1 MB uplink on a static IP from a business ISP connection. My question is -- what sort of load can I expect this server to handle? Right now the load is predicted to be very light -- maybe 4 or 5 users accessing 2 web applications that talk to mysql. Very basic stuff. But now I've got a need for a more dynamic website (Drupal-based) that I'm debating: Do I throw it up on that same webserver or do I get an online hosting solution? Seems a shame since we're already paying so much for the business connection but I'm worried about it being able to serve. This new site would have maybe 100 or so people intermittently visiting it, and it would serve mostly dynamically generated pages and photos.
What do you think? Is there a way to determine this or to test the server to see its load?
Thank you.
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