There's still a lot of missing information here. Your app could have a product delivery responsibility (say, watermarking PDF files) that causes it to have a larger memory/processor footprint than a basic CRUD app. Which commerce approach are you taking? What impact does SSL add? Are there any other apps on the same server?
Walter On Jul 24, 2013, at 8:59 AM, Rob Daniels <r.dani...@gmail.com> wrote: > Sorry - i guess i could be more descriptive. We're producing E-Commerce web > applications that we want scaleable up to hundreds of users. > > > > > On Wednesday, July 24, 2013 4:46:14 AM UTC-4, Peter Hickman wrote: >> >> I would suggest a Raspberry PI with a 8Gb SD card >> >> Of course that wont be of any use to you if your application requires to >> handle 100s of users and has constant database access. >> >> But then again WE ARE NOT PSYCHIC!!!!!! >> >> >> >> On 23 July 2013 13:37, Rob Daniels <r.da...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> I've been approved for a new Rails web server - any suggestions on >>> hardware, OS & setup? >>> >>> Rob >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >>> email to rubyonrails-ta...@googlegroups.com. >>> To post to this group, send email to rubyonra...@googlegroups.com. >>> To view this discussion on the web visit >>> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rubyonrails-talk/56da4123-60b4-40b0-9daf-18fdb4700c47%40googlegroups.com. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rubyonrails-talk/dae1cd1e-5296-4a23-9998-8556831e8a32%40googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rubyonrails-talk/12ED6D86-C9DC-412A-874A-EF40A9A4A428%40wdstudio.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.