Hello,
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Originally Posted by ratbastid
Are you sure the 1mb is the actual uplink speed? A lot of times they sell you a connection based on its speed DOWN, and the upstream is MUCH less.
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Since this is a business connection, its speeds are higher. It's actually suppose to be 8 mb down, 1 mb up. I know the reality will be much less but still...
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Originally Posted by ratbastid
That said, if it really is 1mb/s, your server ought to do fine for 100 visitors. Drupal isn't a lightweight, but I think the network throughput will be your bottleneck, and it'll depend a lot on the composition of your payload. Three people simultaneously downloading scanned architectural blueprints will squash it real fast. But a few people round-robbining smallish dynamic web pages at once shouldn't be a problem.
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This is very good news! Drupal specifically can be fine-tuned to make it faster with caching, and optimization to some degree, but I was worried that the server / pipe was going to be the limiting factor. I was going to also use it as a mail server, but I realized I had another P3/4 machine lying around that I could use for that to help alleviate some of the load from the webserver. Does that make sense?