Buying a server for WCF

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Hi.
I've been doing an application in WCF with the .NET Framework 3.5 using a
front-end built using Win Forms 2.0 and MySQL.

Now they asked me to estimate the requirements for a server that they are planning to buy to install this application on.

The application is to be used by approximately 50 users in total and registers information about electric building (2-6 months). It has two "expensive" operations: the first is that it searches by a full text search index in a table that has about 2000 products and the other is the reading of a planification (because one planification only could have 600 registries associated in the db).

I would like to know how I can calculate the server requirements that I have to buy or some opinions about this issue.

PD: The application will grow to use web pages, probably programmed in PHP or ASP.NET.

Sorry if it's a bit confusing, but my English is not quite good.

Thanks in Advance

Regards,
Marcos

Posted 9-Dec-09 16:06pm

marspzb

Updated 9-Dec-09 16:33pm

David Cunningham5.9K

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They need a PDP-11, or maybe a VAX.

Posted 27-Jan-10 2:52am

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Keith Barrow · Accepted Answer · 2010-01-26T23:51:00

The answer to this is that the question is too complicated to answer, a lot depends upon implementation. The base requirements are low (you couldn't but a new machine this poorly spec'd now:
http://en.csharp-online.net/WCF_Services%E2%80%94Hardware_Requirements[^]

The service doesn't sound too heavy. The searching should be performed on the SQL server, so the WCF service is "idle" while this is happening. I'd host the website and database on a separate machines.

The only thing you can do is stress test the services to see how they perform, in general I'd say a poor response time indicates a poor design.