My company is setting up 5 commerical homepages which include B2B, E-Commerce services. I know nothing much about setting up webservers but unfortunately have been placed the task of doing the proposal. Boohoo! Anyways I would REALLY appreciate it if anyone could give me some advice on what I should do.
1. How many webservers would be recommended for the housing of these 5 commercial homepages? I was thinking probably of 3? (Dual-P3 systems probably with 9.1GB SCSI HDD running on NT4.0 and using IIS4.0)
2. Does anyone have recommendations of hardware servers? My company is currently looking at HP Netservers/IBM Webservers. Any recommedations of good models which are more suitable for web-hosting needs?
3. What hardware load balancers would be the recommended (for ease, efficiency) for use with these webservers? I currently have the F5 in mind.
4. Would server clustering of these 3 webservers be a good idea? or considering that if one extra server was filled with the information of all 5 webpages, and the other 2 went down, services would automatically take over and sites would be loaded from there? I guess I'm just try to ensure that in times of emergencies, there's another backup plan to keep these webpages going. Are there any other recommended options/plans?
5. Would anyone happen to have a flow chart of the whole webserver process? From the host till probably the end-user surfing on the net. It would be really helpif you could email it to me.
6. Other than the setting up of firewalls, am I still missing out on anything important that needs to be set up?
Would really appreciate it if anyone out there could give advice.
Many Thanks in Advance.
Gene
1. How many webservers would be recommended for the housing of these 5 commercial homepages? I was thinking probably of 3? (Dual-P3 systems probably with 9.1GB SCSI HDD running on NT4.0 and using IIS4.0)
2. Does anyone have recommendations of hardware servers? My company is currently looking at HP Netservers/IBM Webservers. Any recommedations of good models which are more suitable for web-hosting needs?
3. What hardware load balancers would be the recommended (for ease, efficiency) for use with these webservers? I currently have the F5 in mind.
4. Would server clustering of these 3 webservers be a good idea? or considering that if one extra server was filled with the information of all 5 webpages, and the other 2 went down, services would automatically take over and sites would be loaded from there? I guess I'm just try to ensure that in times of emergencies, there's another backup plan to keep these webpages going. Are there any other recommended options/plans?
5. Would anyone happen to have a flow chart of the whole webserver process? From the host till probably the end-user surfing on the net. It would be really helpif you could email it to me.
6. Other than the setting up of firewalls, am I still missing out on anything important that needs to be set up?
Would really appreciate it if anyone out there could give advice.
Many Thanks in Advance.
Gene
