[EricGT]

Originally Posted by TECK

With 5,000 users, you need 6 servers. 2 for web, 2 for db and 2 for load balancing (1 is failsafe). Then your server load will be around 0.5-1.5. You cannot run an efficient board while having the load at 15. However, you will obtain much better results if you use a proxy array, instead of spending extra money on 2 cheap balancers.. Serving the data will be ultra fast.

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You should bump the drives to 15K SAS RAID10, especially for your db servers.
You are killing your servers with SATA, as we speak.

And instead of load balancer hardware, you should try nginx with few workers set in proxy.
It will blow your mind, speed wise.

This is a powerful server, but it was still built on a tight budget and the extra expense could not be justified. At any rate, the current setup is lightning fast and handling the load just fine. I'll check out nginx, but when I need load balancing again, I will probably use the system built into the Astaro firewall I use. Thanks for the tip though. Eric