OT: Hardware requirements for CSLA/Silverlight based WebServer

Jack posted on Monday, March 09, 2009

Having never worried about the hardware myself in terms of deploying and maintaining the infrastructure for a web based app before I find myself unsure what the real requirements are.

I have an application that needs to support 8 sites across N/A with 2-5 users per site although I can't imagine more than 10-12 users working at once but who knows.  It is Silverlight/CSLA /w an Oracle back-end.

I have an standalone box for my database but I'm not quite sure what I should put out for the webserver.  I need a prod box + a shared dev/test/standby box.

I tried googling quite a bit to find out what the requirements were but its pretty vague and everything is really based on ASP pages etc.

I don't have too much processing going on the apptier side other than getting the data, generating reports, and maybe doing some conversion to PDF.  I may shift some of my data export into Business objects which would involve transposing rows into columns.

Is WinServer 2008 WebServer version plenty? 

Any thoughts?  Has anybody seen any links they can pass along?  The only think I found was buried on the MS Silverlight community forums and only had a simple response.

I currently have no requirements to stream video or anything which seems to be most peoples concerns.

Thanks

jack

JoeFallon1 replied on Tuesday, March 10, 2009

That is a very light load for a webserver.

So any modern server with a new OS will be fine. Make sure to have lots of RAM available. 3-4GB is fairly standard for a server and will be fine.

The latest version of IIS will more than handle this app.

Joe