vB 3.8.5 with 2k users online, this colo can handle it?

[Rafa-el]

I will buy this server but I want to know if can work with this specs for a vBulletin 3.8.5 forum with 2k users online and vBSEO installed, yeah, I know that are other factors but based in your experience you can tell me if I need something or there are something to change?

Here are the server specs:

dual Intel Xeon Gainestown E5504, 8x 2.0Ghz cores, 2x 4M L3
Supermicro X8DTL-iF dual socket 1366 server board, 6x DDR3 DIMM
6G (3x 2G) DDR3-1333 non-ECC, 3x open
4x 146-Gig Seagate Cheetah 15K.6 SAS 15000rpm
Adaptec 2405 4-port SAS hardware RAID-10 controller
on-board integrated IPMI 2.0 Adapter w/KVM-over-IP & 3rd NIC
on-board Intel 82576 dual GB NIC Ports
on-board Matrox Video, 8M video RAM
no Optical drive, no floppy
SuperMicro SC813MTQ-520CB 1U Rack-mount Chassis, Black
4x Hot-swap HDD Carriers, 1x4 SAS Backplane
supermicro 520-watt Power Supply
1U Rail Kit
UPS ground/insurance

Thanks.

[snakes1100]

Yes it can.

Depending on setup of the webserver, the RAM maybe close, dont use apache.

[Rafa-el]

What do you recommend? Ngnix, Cherokee, lighthttpd?

[snakes1100]

nginx

[Zachery]

I would recomend posting over at vBulletin.com's server optmization forum and seeing what george/eva2000 has to say.

[kmike]

Also it depends on the forum size, or to be more precise, on the database size.

[Rafa-el]

Thanks Guys.

The DB size is currently of 2GB, I expect that will increase about 500Mb in a couple months and 1.5GB in all the year.

[snakes1100]

It will be close with only 6GB of ram, with the proper setup of the OS, optimization of nginx, sql, php & the OS, you could be ok, if your expectations of future growth are correct, i would have another 2GB of ram ready as well.

[Delifed]

another idea is memcache.

[Marco van Herwaarden]

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