I want to make a site that can take up to 1 million hits per day.

My site contains dynamic pages. I need to connect LDAP and IMAP
server. There is no other database connection.

For that I have following questions.

1. What type of machine should I put IIS on? (Configuration)
2. Memory
3. Server farm
4. ASP.NET scalablitiy

Can anyone tell me where to find this type of information?

There are a lot of variables that come into play. Just saying "a million page 
requests a day" doesn't provide much information about how many of those 
requests are going to require LDAP / IMAP lookups. At a minimum, the bigger 
multi-proc box the better, at least 4Gig RAM, big fast hard drive.

ASP.NET scales very well compared to other technologies - but a lot of that 
depends on how your application is written and whether you use caching and 
other features to help it scale. Your best bet is to set it up on one box to 
start and do extensive load testing and get some metrics first.
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"Hemant" wrote:


> I want to make a site that can take up to 1 million hits per day.
> 
> My site contains dynamic pages. I need to connect LDAP and IMAP
> server. There is no other database connection.
> 
> For that I have following questions.
> 
> 1. What type of machine should I put IIS on? (Configuration)
> 2. Memory
> 3. Server farm
> 4. ASP.NET scalablitiy
> 
> Can anyone tell me where to find this type of information?
> 
>