I have a site that will need to have the ability to handle large amounts of visitors on an very occasional basis. Think city/county website that is strictly set up for posting emergency information in the case of a disaster/mall bombing/flood/tornado/hurricane for a city of around 200k with many students who's family from out of town would be looking for info as well.
I'd like to have a very simple cms so several non-technical people could update it. The code should be simple with as few server calls as possible. The plan is that it will be one page with new news added at the top of the page and a links to PDF press releases or to a different site with press releases. They are running it as a virtual IIS server on a Dell R610 with 96gb ram and 24 CPUs with a cable connection and hopefully a fiber line soon. It is configured for 2gb ram and 1 CPU, but in an emergency they could quickly reconfigure it to 16 processors and 64gb ram.
How can I get an idea of how much traffic this could handle?
I'd like to have a very simple cms so several non-technical people could update it. The code should be simple with as few server calls as possible. The plan is that it will be one page with new news added at the top of the page and a links to PDF press releases or to a different site with press releases. They are running it as a virtual IIS server on a Dell R610 with 96gb ram and 24 CPUs with a cable connection and hopefully a fiber line soon. It is configured for 2gb ram and 1 CPU, but in an emergency they could quickly reconfigure it to 16 processors and 64gb ram.
How can I get an idea of how much traffic this could handle?
