Jeff V. Merkey wrote:
You may wish to consider ordering more powerful
platforms. I run 6
instances of the entire Wikipedia on a single Solera Appliance.
These servers have throughput of 875 megabyte per second
I run a Wikipedia instance on the 366MHz OLPC XO-1
(
http://dev.laptop.org/~krstic/xo); it works because I'm the only user.
Neither storage nor disk throughput help when your problem is sheer
load, and you're computationally-bound.
I also have proxy servers setup and I get about 2000 visitors a day and
over 300,000 hits per day.