bind machine performance for around 500 domains
Gaud
gaud at gaudtechnologies.com
Tue May 2 17:29:39 UTC 2006
Rick Jones wrote:
> Gaud <gaud at gaudtechnologies.com> wrote:
> > The company I work for wants me to manage their zones and everything
> > related to DNS, So I must set a master and a slave server for around
> > 500 differents domains. Now we are wondering..
>
> > How many bandwidth do we need ?
>
> How long is a piece of string?-)
>
> > What type of machine do we need for very good performance.
> > is a celeron 2.0ghz enough or should we go with P4 ht ?
>
> > in my opinion, a celeron would be enough but I just want to know
> > what you think about it.
>
> When you say "bandwidth" are you only concerned about CPU consumption,
> or are you also concerned about bits/packets per second on the wire?
I am concerned about both.
> Both will actually depend on what you expect your query rate to be. I
> suppose that can be related in part to the number of domains you
> serve, but it also will relate to how popular any of those domains
> might be.
I expect that this server will have to handle 350,000 hit per day
> rick jones
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