Machine roles for server topology SP2010

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I have two machines, both 2.4 GHz quad core machines. One has 4GB RAM, the other 8GB RAM.

Which server should be Web Front End, which should be Database server?

Wesley

Posted 2012-06-08T22:37:46.873

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Chance that the link between the two computers will be the bottle neck. – kobaltz – 2012-06-09T00:00:12.730

Answers

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There is no single magic answer for this.

A webserver can run very well on tiny hardware if all it does is serve static pages to a few users. If it needs to serve hundreds of simultanious connections and do some server side magic (e.g. accept uploadd images, convert them locally to a identicsal format and display those) then it needs bigger hardware.

The same is true for the DB server. Without more information than you provided you will not get a useful answer.

Hennes

Posted 2012-06-08T22:37:46.873

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Thanks for your input. It's for a Dev machine that will also have a front end component for demo. Very few concurrent connections. More intensity on data access per single user. Sounds like DB server should get the beef. – Wesley – 2012-06-08T22:43:01.750

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