Standard vs Enterprise different?

Question

I'm trying to find out how to calculate the maximum
connection/capability of a server in real life.
Let's say, I've a dual xeon with 4GB ram + HD RAID5 or SAS...
WIN or LINUX + CF8 32 or 64 Bit.
For your experience, in a company that has connection around
50 users. Is this enough for that hardware + CF8 Standard Edition?
Then when I should consider Enterprise version? One of my
customer has ~200 users, should I change hardware + version of CF?
The application is based on Flex + CF. Not much PDF
generation. Usually use Transfer-ORM, ColdSpring, + PostgreSQL
backend.
I've this problem because I don't have enough experience for
CF server. Please someone, guide me how to choose between Standard
& Enterprise version.

Answer 1

jedt3d wrote:
>
> I've this problem because I don't have enough experience
for CF server. Please
> someone, guide me how to choose between Standard &
Enterprise version.
>
I have seldom seen throughput or number of users as reasons
to choose
between standard and enterprise. They both will handle
considerable
load and numbers like 50 and 200 should be a drop in the
bucket for each
server depending on what type of heavy load tasks they may be
expected
to carry out.
I.E. a heavy processing application used by 10 users could
bring a
enterprise server to it's knees while a standard server could
easily
handle 10's of thousands of users on a well thought out and
properly
scaled application.
Factors you probably want to consider are features. Standard,
at this
time, is only 32 bit. So if you want to make use of 64 bit
hardware you
probably want to consider enterprise.
Enterprise allows multi-home and J2EE configurations.
Multi-home allows
for single box application isolation and roll over effects as
well as
the ability to make use of more memory then a single JVM can
access. A
bit under 2GB for a 32 bit installation. J2EE configuration
allows you
to use other Java Servers then the built-in JRun4.
Enterprise as more throughput for some tasks such as e-mail,
gateways
and such. Some of these features are single threaded on
standard while
they make full use of multi-thread capabilities in the
enterprise version.
My gut instinct from your original post is that Standard
would probably
be enough for you. But if you want to speak to somebody in
Adobe you
could provide real answers try one of these contacts.
http://www.forta.com/blog/index.cfm/2007/10/9/ColdFusions-Dedicated-Account-Managers