I need to run some load-testing, but perhaps you could give me a ball-park figure based on your sites?

Here's my site details:

hardware:
- dedicated server
- celeron 2.4ghz
- 512mb

software:
- w2003
- iis6
- asp.net 2.0
- sql server 2005 express

usage:
- user visit length: average 5 min
- user will perform average 5 queries in that time. Queries are on a single 100,000 row table (well indexed, no joins), returning 1 - 50 rows. No updates just selects.
- serving low graphic pages 5kb-50kb

- How many concurrent users would you estimate? Would the 512mb be a bottleneck when supporting many concurrent sessions?

I wouldn't like to offer up an approximate figure for you, but I would certainly say that 512MB RAM is tight for a win2k3 box.

Up that to 1 - 2 GB and you should be able to handle quite a lot given the characteristics you described of the site you're running.

Hi,

512Mb is not enough for sql + iis (.net2) machine.
The question is how perfect your website code.

Run performance monitor on the server, view concurrent sessions, memory, cpu ...

Good luck

Originally Posted by damien_ls

I wouldn't like to offer up an approximate figure for you, but I would certainly say that 512MB RAM is tight for a win2k3 box.

Up that to 1 - 2 GB and you should be able to handle quite a lot given the characteristics you described of the site you're running.

Right, I would also suggest that you upgrade your server to atleast 1 gb ram.

Originally Posted by biggest-hosting

Right, I would also suggest that you upgrade your server to atleast 1 gb ram.

It means to change a package plan, right?