[Slashcode-general] Server Speed / Load Balancing / Performance

[Miguel D. <mda...@la...>]

Hi all-

Since this is my first post, I thought I'd just say thanks to 
everyone who kindly offers their time to answer questions here.  I'm 
working with Slash for a very important projects and am learning a 
lot from this list.

Now to the question:

We currently have our slash server running on a single box.  It's a 
modest PII system with a decent (256 Megs) chunk of RAM and a not too 
speedy IDE HD.

We're going to ramp up for some pretty heavy traffic and I'm very 
much wondering what sorts of loads people are handling with various 
hardware configs.

More specifically, what upgrades to the current server I've got 
running would most help server performance?  And, as is more likely 
the case, if we go with a multiple server setup, how easy is this to 
do when we've got everything running on a single box right now (I'm 
pretty much a novice, though I've got access to someone very familiar 
with Linux, though not necessarily every nuance of Slashcode).

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

Miguel