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The last few month I was working on a website where you can publish political proposals. The length of a full proposal has a maximum size of about 900 characters. You also have to Register and Login to use the full functionality of the Website. Now to my Question:

How much Users should I have, to think about an own Server, and how much Ram, SSD,.. should have the own or hosted Server per User?
How much does it need to be stable and how much Users could use the Website in the same time?

Thanks for answering!

Best regards,
Sergio Wagenleitner
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Updated 4-Jul-15 23:39pm
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It's rare these days to set up your own server as a web-host, unless you are a large corporate: the bandwidth available on a "domestic" connection is generally a bit too low - though that is changing, you have to remember that the serving of the webpages generates a lot more traffic than the user request, and that would be coming from your "upload" bandwidth not "download" which is generally 1/10 the connection speed.

Talk to your chosen hosting service - you'll likely find that unless you specify (and pay for!) a dedicated server you don't get a lot of choice in this. Most hosting services use a server farm, and allocate incoming users to a "next free" server to run your website app - so the load balancing is down to them. They will be able to suggest a suitable package based your your traffic estimates.
 
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If you don't have budget constraints for your website you can go for Azure Cloud to setup your server which will give you 99.95% uptime, complete georedundant storage, 10Gbps of internet connection. If you need more security, go for backup services which will secure your data or even complete Virtual machine
 
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