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"There are many charlatans in, on and around the internet. We suffered through 3 "experts" in web design and set-up before finding John Waveris and Invisible Gold."
Peter A. Howe,
President
Thermal Dynamix, Inc.
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To setup an Invisible Gold server, you need to be able to create ASP powered sites. This requires either Microsoft Windows 2000 or 2003 Server. Invisible Gold needs the ability to load and execute DLLs. (It won't run on a Linux or Unix server with ASP emulation.)
The performance of the hardware determines how much capacity you can run on the server. Keep in mind, a Windows server can host hundreds of static or very simple sites, but perhaps one fifth as many Invisible Gold powered sites.
Capacity You can make a good estimate by remembering that the server can handle one simultaneous user per 25Mhz. (of course this depends on the complexity of the sites) Regardless, a 1Ghz server can serve roughly 1 page per second to 20 users. A fast 2-5Ghz server will thus be able to handle 100 or more sites without trouble.
NOTE: Caching should be turned on in each site. This makes them run as much as 60x as fast - thereby decreasing server load dramatically.
When building a server, your first concern should be processor cycles. Dual processors usually work out to be the best value. Second, focus on the drive speed. A fast dual processor with a SATA drive (or even dual drives as a RAID) will be ideal. RAM is the third priority - though not as important as you might think. 1 Gigabyte should be enough for most servers. (512 is ok for slower servers or servers dedicated to a couple of sites.)
NOTE: The image is a 2.8 Ghz Pentium server running with a simulated capacity of 40-50 sites. The point the graph drops is when caching was turned on. This machine would be running much slower if it had less than 512 Megs of Ram.
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