Hi trying to find info onsystem requirements for deploying moodle at a large scale.
will be launching accross different sites that have to be interconnected we project more then 10000 users simultaneously on a two year period .
any advice is welcomed
Hi. I'm implementing approach for 7000 students, simultaneous - 3000 users. We lease a cluster - several servers in a data-center. I'm sure you'll have to do the same. The point is how you'll organize the servers and their infrastructure. That's the "know-how" approach. I'm working on a paper about using clusters, nginx, caching, accelerators, load balancing, distribution of tasks, etc. Anyway the system requirements can be in a wide range and they depend mainly on what kind of courses and data you are going to store in Moodle, e.g. using streaming video & audio, web conferencing will highly encrease hardware & network requirements.
Out of curiostiy how goes the paper? I'd be interestned to read it.
Hello TEd
you need some configuration like this:
But always dedicated servers DELL R710 or R810 with at least 16GB RAM, RAID 10 15K RPM:
2 Web Servers with Load Balancing
2 Database servers Master-Slave
1 file server or amazon Ec2 for external files
For the provider the best for this model are Peer1 or Rackspace.
Warms regards, Pavel
Thank you pavel i'm actually using a similar architecture for our project. but i beefed up the Ram on my webservers.
but do u think 16gb is enough for my DB server?
soon will be installing webmin
Hello Dear Ted
You can begin wit 16gb for your Db Server and begin to monitoring the memory usage for determine if is enough.
Another detail for Db Server the most recommend is using SSD Disk.
but i think is fine for begin.
Warms regards, Pavel