Whats the best way to determine the hardware requirements for an application
What methods do you use to determine what kind of hardware you need for a server? I often find it very hard to predict what kind of hardware you will need for a web based application with a database. Do you have any good methods or recommendations on how to best pick hardware to use? This is sort of the basic question of capacity planning. You start by defining a workload model , which describes what you expect to get in terms of traffic. This can be as simple as "I expect 20 page hits a minute maximum." Then you need to think about burst loads. Failing any other data, you can assume that